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Journal of Cellular Automata is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5), WoS SCIE. Published by Old City Publishing.
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ISSN 1557-5969Verify ISSN ↗1557-5977Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Old City Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control and Systems Engineering | 361 / 390 | 7th | Q4 |
| Computer Science (all) | 233 / 241 | 3rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2026 (also 2008–2024), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Journal of Cellular Automata is Q4 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 361 of 390) and Q4 in Computer Science (all) (rank 233 of 241), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Cellular Automata is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 7th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.133, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 17.
Journal of Cellular Automata is published by Old City Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1557-5969 and its online ISSN is 1557-5977.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Cellular Automata has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #247 of 306 Scopus journals in Control and Systems Engineering.
Journal of Cellular Automata published 1 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2016 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.
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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