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Nature Energy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 78.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2058-7546Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: About US$12,690 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 1 / 345 | 99th | Q1 |
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 2 / 347 | 99th | Q1 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 2 / 318 | 99th | Q1 |
| Fuel Technology | 2 / 138 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 78.4.
Nature Energy is Q1 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 1 of 345), Q1 in Energy Engineering and Power Technology (rank 2 of 347) and Q1 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 2 of 318), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Nature Energy 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 78.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 20.769, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 291.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$12,690 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.
Nature Energy is published by Springer Nature. Its ISSN is 2058-7546.
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.
Nature Energy has an h-index of 340 and a 2-year mean of 31.61 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 78.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 304 Scopus journals in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.
Nature Energy published 237 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 265. 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 78 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (22.4%), United States (22.2%) and Germany (9.7%).
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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