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Journal of Porous Media is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.8), WoS SCIE. Published by Begell House Inc..
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ISSN 1091-028XVerify ISSN ↗1934-0508Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Begell House Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modeling and Simulation | 95 / 397 | 76th | Q1 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 235 / 740 | 68th | Q2 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 166 / 446 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 154 / 408 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Materials Science (all) | 210 / 475 | 55th | Q2 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 161 / 342 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1998–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.8.
Journal of Porous Media is Q1 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 95 of 397), Q2 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 235 of 740) and Q2 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 166 of 446), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Journal of Porous Media 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.414, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 48.
Journal of Porous Media is published by Begell House Inc. Its print ISSN is 1091-028X and its online ISSN is 1934-0508.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Porous Media has an h-index of 49 and a 2-year mean of 2.3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #116 of 323 Scopus journals in Modeling and Simulation.
Journal of Porous Media published 75 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 112. 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 86 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (19%), China (18.6%) and Pakistan (8.2%).
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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