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International Journal of Renewable Energy Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.5), WoS ESCI. Published by Gazi Universitesi.
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ISSN 1309-0127Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Gazi Universitesi
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 128 / 347 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 175 / 345 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.5.
International Journal of Renewable Energy Research is Q2 in Energy Engineering and Power Technology (rank 128 of 347) and Q3 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 175 of 345), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Renewable Energy Research 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.408, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 50.
International Journal of Renewable Energy Research is published by Gazi Universitesi. Its ISSN is 1309-0127.
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 Renewable Energy Research has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 1.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #133 of 257 Scopus journals in Energy Engineering and Power Technology.
International Journal of Renewable Energy Research published 85 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 241. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (18.5%), Morocco (13.5%) and China (12.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none 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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