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Next Energy is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2949-821XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 169 / 318 | 47th | Q3 |
| Energy (miscellaneous) | 62 / 106 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.6.
Next Energy is Q3 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 169 of 318) and Q3 in Energy (miscellaneous) (rank 62 of 106), by CiteScore 2025.
Next 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 47th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.101, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 16.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,280 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.
Next Energy is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2949-821X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Next Energy has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 3.85 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #81 of 269 Scopus journals in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.
Next Energy published 263 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 78 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (26.7%), Iran (6.2%) and Indonesia (5.6%).
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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