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Journal of Propulsion and Power is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc. (AIAA).
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ISSN 0748-4658Verify ISSN ↗1533-3876Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc. (AIAA)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aerospace Engineering | 33 / 169 | 80th | Q1 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 175 / 740 | 76th | Q1 |
| Space and Planetary Science | 30 / 105 | 71st | Q2 |
| Fuel Technology | 48 / 138 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1985–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.9.
Journal of Propulsion and Power is Q1 in Aerospace Engineering (rank 33 of 169), Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 175 of 740) and Q2 in Space and Planetary Science (rank 30 of 105), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Propulsion and Power 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 5.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.752, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 127.
Journal of Propulsion and Power is published by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc. (AIAA). Its print ISSN is 0748-4658 and its online ISSN is 1533-3876.
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 Propulsion and Power has an h-index of 139 and a 2-year mean of 3.01 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #30 of 141 Scopus journals in Aerospace Engineering.
Journal of Propulsion and Power published 87 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 170. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (34.3%), China (20%) and Japan (10.5%).
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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