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Journal of Central South University is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science + Business Media.
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ISSN 2095-2899Verify ISSN ↗2227-5223Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science + Business Media
Cost to publish: About US$3,890 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering (all) | 56 / 351 | 84th | Q1 |
| Metals and Alloys | 33 / 182 | 82nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.8.
Journal of Central South University is Q1 in Engineering (all) (rank 56 of 351) and Q1 in Metals and Alloys (rank 33 of 182), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Central South University 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 6.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.753, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 65.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,890 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of Central South University is published by Springer Science + Business Media. Its print ISSN is 2095-2899 and its online ISSN is 2227-5223.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Central South University has an h-index of 64 and a 2-year mean of 4.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #41 of 299 Scopus journals in Engineering (all).
Journal of Central South University published 299 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 309. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (91.5%), Iran (3%) and Hong Kong SAR China (1%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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