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Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0022-4073Verify ISSN ↗1879-1352Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$2,870 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radiation | 10 / 75 | 87th | Q1 |
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 78 / 243 | 68th | Q2 |
| Spectroscopy | 29 / 81 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1961–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.6.
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer is Q1 in Radiation (rank 10 of 75), Q2 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 78 of 243) and Q2 in Spectroscopy (rank 29 of 81), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 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 5.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.784, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 133.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,870 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 Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0022-4073 and its online ISSN is 1879-1352.
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 Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer has an h-index of 173 and a 2-year mean of 2.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #9 of 62 Scopus journals in Radiation.
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer published 314 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 575. 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 (20.8%), United States (11.1%) and France (9.3%).
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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