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International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.4), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd..
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ISSN 2049-6427Verify ISSN ↗2049-6435Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automotive Engineering | 39 / 143 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Modeling and Simulation | 112 / 397 | 71st | Q2 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 238 / 755 | 68th | Q2 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 263 / 740 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.4.
International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems is Q2 in Automotive Engineering (rank 39 of 143), Q2 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 112 of 397) and Q2 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 238 of 755), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 4.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.383, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 19.
International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems is published by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2049-6427 and its online ISSN is 2049-6435.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 0.57 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #86 of 120 Scopus journals in Automotive Engineering.
International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 50. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 89 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from India (61%), Vietnam (6.2%) and China (3.4%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 78 retracted papers are recorded (254.9 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 11 of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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