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Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 17.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Academic Press.
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ISSN 0888-3270Verify ISSN ↗1096-1216Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Academic Press
Cost to publish: About US$4,730 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 6 / 434 | 98th | Q1 |
| Aerospace Engineering | 3 / 169 | 98th | Q1 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 18 / 740 | 97th | Q1 |
| Signal Processing | 8 / 203 | 96th | Q1 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 15 / 390 | 96th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 41 / 1022 | 96th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 17.6.
Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing is Q1 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 6 of 434), Q1 in Aerospace Engineering (rank 3 of 169) and Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 18 of 740), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing 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 17.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.342, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 241.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,730 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.
Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing is published by Academic Press. Its print ISSN is 0888-3270 and its online ISSN is 1096-1216.
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.
Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing has an h-index of 252 and a 2-year mean of 9.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 17.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #8 of 385 Scopus journals in Civil and Structural Engineering.
Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing published 1,485 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 88 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (69.4%), Italy (6.3%) and South Korea (5.1%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.1 per 1,000 papers). 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.
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