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Multimedia Tools and Applications is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.6). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 1380-7501Verify ISSN ↗1573-7721Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$3,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Media Technology | 6 / 83 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Computer Networks and Communications | 75 / 568 | 86th | Q1 |
| Hardware and Architecture | 37 / 245 | 85th | Q1 |
| Software | 78 / 503 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.6.
Multimedia Tools and Applications is Q1 in Media Technology (rank 6 of 83), Q1 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 75 of 568) and Q1 in Hardware and Architecture (rank 37 of 245), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Multimedia Tools and Applications is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.6, quartile Q1, 93rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.798, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 134.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,190 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.
Multimedia Tools and Applications is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 1380-7501 and its online ISSN is 1573-7721.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Multimedia Tools and Applications has an h-index of 159 and a 2-year mean of 5.75 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 54 Scopus journals in Media Technology.
Multimedia Tools and Applications published 623 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 3,459. 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 (2026), authors are most often from India (36.2%), China (6.4%) and Taiwan (5.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 652 retracted papers are recorded (29.7 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 217 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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