Get an email when this journal's indexing changes
Added to or removed from Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas or ONOS. One confirmation click; unsubscribe anytime.
Kerntechnik is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.8), WoS SCIE. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0932-3902Verify ISSN ↗2195-8580Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,712 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 144 / 282 | 49th | Q3 |
| Radiation | 41 / 75 | 46th | Q3 |
| Nuclear Energy and Engineering | 52 / 85 | 39th | Q3 |
| Nuclear and High Energy Physics | 61 / 97 | 37th | Q3 |
| Materials Science (all) | 351 / 475 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present (also 1988–1993, 1978, 1975–1976, 1973, 1969–1971), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.8.
Kerntechnik is Q3 in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (rank 144 of 282), Q3 in Radiation (rank 41 of 75) and Q3 in Nuclear Energy and Engineering (rank 52 of 85), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Kerntechnik 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 49th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.265, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 22.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,712 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.
Kerntechnik is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0932-3902 and its online ISSN is 2195-8580.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Kerntechnik has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 0.94 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #131 of 199 Scopus journals in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.
Kerntechnik published 57 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 90. 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 Germany (28.1%), China (20.3%) and Egypt (9.9%).
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.
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.
Comments load as you scroll here.