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Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Korean Society of Industrial Engineering Chemistry.
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ISSN 1226-086XVerify ISSN ↗1876-794XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Society of Industrial Engineering Chemistry
Cost to publish: About US$2,500 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemical Engineering (all) | 25 / 270 | 90th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.
Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry is Q1 in Chemical Engineering (all) (rank 25 of 270), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry 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 12, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.026, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 163.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,500 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 Industrial and Engineering Chemistry is published by Korean Society of Industrial Engineering Chemistry. Its print ISSN is 1226-086X and its online ISSN is 1876-794X.
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 Industrial and Engineering Chemistry has an h-index of 173 and a 2-year mean of 7.94 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #17 of 246 Scopus journals in Chemical Engineering (all).
Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry published 691 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 744. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (37.9%), South Korea (19.8%) and India (5.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 4 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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