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Materials for Renewable and Sustainable Energy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Springer International Publishing AG.
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ISSN 2194-1459Verify ISSN ↗2194-1467Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 57 / 318 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Materials Chemistry | 66 / 327 | 79th | Q1 |
| Fuel Technology | 35 / 138 | 75th | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 101 / 345 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.6.
Materials for Renewable and Sustainable Energy is Q1 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 57 of 318), Q1 in Materials Chemistry (rank 66 of 327) and Q1 in Fuel Technology (rank 35 of 138), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Materials for Renewable and Sustainable Energy 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 8.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.228, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 37.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,190 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.
Materials for Renewable and Sustainable Energy is published by Springer International Publishing AG. Its print ISSN is 2194-1459 and its online ISSN is 2194-1467.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Materials for Renewable and Sustainable Energy has an h-index of 47 and a 2-year mean of 7.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #28 of 269 Scopus journals in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.
Materials for Renewable and Sustainable Energy published 64 papers in 2025. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (19.7%), Italy (11.2%) and Iran (8.8%).
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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