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Journal of Power Sources is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.2), 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 0378-7753Verify ISSN ↗1873-2755Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$4,230 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 75 / 1030 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Physical and Theoretical Chemistry | 19 / 194 | 90th | Q1 |
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 34 / 347 | 90th | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 58 / 345 | 83rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1976–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.2.
Journal of Power Sources is Q1 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 75 of 1030), Q1 in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (rank 19 of 194) and Q1 in Energy Engineering and Power Technology (rank 34 of 347), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Power Sources 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 12.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.598, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 396.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,230 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 Power Sources is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0378-7753 and its online ISSN is 1873-2755.
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 Power Sources has an h-index of 416 and a 2-year mean of 7.95 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #36 of 744 Scopus journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Journal of Power Sources published 2,819 papers in 2025. 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 (50.2%), South Korea (12.6%) and India (11%). 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. 16 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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