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Journal of Electrostatics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0304-3886Verify ISSN ↗1873-5738Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,780 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 438 / 1030 | 57th | Q2 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 174 / 318 | 45th | Q3 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 245 / 446 | 45th | Q3 |
| Biotechnology | 183 / 325 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 81 / 141 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1975–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.5.
Journal of Electrostatics is Q2 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 438 of 1030), Q3 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 174 of 318) and Q3 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 245 of 446), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Electrostatics 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 57th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.331, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 95.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,780 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 Electrostatics is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0304-3886 and its online ISSN is 1873-5738.
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 Electrostatics has an h-index of 105 and a 2-year mean of 2.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #347 of 744 Scopus journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Journal of Electrostatics published 168 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 175. 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (35.6%), India (9.4%) and Japan (6.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 per 1,000 papers). 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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