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Nano Communication Networks is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1878-7789Verify ISSN ↗1878-7797Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,420 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Mathematics | 40 / 680 | 94th | Q1 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 180 / 1030 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Computer Networks and Communications | 109 / 568 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.7.
Nano Communication Networks is Q1 in Applied Mathematics (rank 40 of 680), Q1 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 180 of 1030) and Q1 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 109 of 568), by CiteScore 2025.
Nano Communication Networks 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 7.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.503, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 49.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,420 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.
Nano Communication Networks is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 1878-7789 and its online ISSN is 1878-7797.
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.
Nano Communication Networks has an h-index of 53 and a 2-year mean of 3.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #57 of 621 Scopus journals in Applied Mathematics.
Nano Communication Networks published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 41. 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 (2022–2026), authors are most often from India (35.2%), China (14.8%) and Iran (11%).
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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