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Malaysian Journal of Fundamental and Applied Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.7), WoS ESCI. Published by Penerbit UTM Press.
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ISSN 2289-5981Verify ISSN ↗2289-599XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Penerbit UTM Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics (all) | 169 / 414 | 59th | Q2 |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 120 / 235 | 49th | Q3 |
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 166 / 248 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 152 / 223 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Chemistry (all) | 283 / 402 | 29th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present (also 2015), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.7.
Malaysian Journal of Fundamental and Applied Sciences is Q2 in Mathematics (all) (rank 169 of 414), Q3 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 120 of 235) and Q3 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 166 of 248), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Malaysian Journal of Fundamental and Applied Sciences 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 59th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.229, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 20.
Malaysian Journal of Fundamental and Applied Sciences is published by Penerbit UTM Press. Its print ISSN is 2289-5981 and its online ISSN is 2289-599X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Malaysian Journal of Fundamental and Applied Sciences has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 1.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #110 of 392 Scopus journals in Mathematics (all).
Malaysian Journal of Fundamental and Applied Sciences published 113 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 171. 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 Malaysia (60.2%), Indonesia (16.7%) and Thailand (5%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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 1 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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