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Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.5), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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ISSN 1355-2511Verify ISSN ↗1758-7832Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 37 / 282 | 87th | Q1 |
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 77 / 425 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Strategy and Management | 128 / 506 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.5.
Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering is Q1 in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (rank 37 of 282), Q1 in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (rank 77 of 425) and Q2 in Strategy and Management (rank 128 of 506), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 7.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.507, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 66.
Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering is published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Its print ISSN is 1355-2511 and its online ISSN is 1758-7832.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Commercial services.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Operations and Technology Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering has an h-index of 77 and a 2-year mean of 1.95 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #85 of 199 Scopus journals in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.
Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 64. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (12.5%), China (8.9%) and Iran (8.9%).
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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