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Journal of Sensors is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.2), WoS SCIE. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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ISSN 1687-725XVerify ISSN ↗1687-7268Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$2,830 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instrumentation | 29 / 206 | 86th | Q1 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 200 / 1030 | 80th | Q1 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 83 / 390 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.2.
Journal of Sensors is Q1 in Instrumentation (rank 29 of 206), Q1 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 200 of 1030) and Q1 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 83 of 390), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Sensors 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 7.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.422, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 76.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,830 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 Sensors is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1687-725X and its online ISSN is 1687-7268.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Sensors has an h-index of 85 and a 2-year mean of 2.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #52 of 146 Scopus journals in Instrumentation.
Journal of Sensors published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 869. 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 94 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (36.9%), India (10.4%) and Bangladesh (7.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 938 retracted papers are recorded (232.9 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 89 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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