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International Journal of Space Science and Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5), WoS ESCI. Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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ISSN 2048-8459Verify ISSN ↗2048-8467Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aerospace Engineering | 150 / 169 | 11th | Q4 |
| Space and Planetary Science | 95 / 105 | 10th | Q4 |
| Computer Science Applications | 924 / 1022 | 9th | Q4 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 360 / 390 | 7th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–2025 (also 2019–2021), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
International Journal of Space Science and Engineering is Q4 in Aerospace Engineering (rank 150 of 169), Q4 in Space and Planetary Science (rank 95 of 105) and Q4 in Computer Science Applications (rank 924 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Space Science and Engineering 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 11th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.115, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 4.
International Journal of Space Science and Engineering is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2048-8459 and its online ISSN is 2048-8467.
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 Space Science and Engineering has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #125 of 141 Scopus journals in Aerospace Engineering.
International Journal of Space Science and Engineering published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 27. 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 20 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from India (25%), Egypt (15%) and Algeria (15%).
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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