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Nuclear Engineering and Design is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.6), 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 0029-5493Verify ISSN ↗1872-759XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,710 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 98 / 282 | 65th | Q2 |
| Nuclear Energy and Engineering | 30 / 85 | 65th | Q2 |
| Nuclear and High Energy Physics | 35 / 97 | 64th | Q2 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 322 / 740 | 56th | Q2 |
| Waste Management and Disposal | 79 / 151 | 48th | Q3 |
| Materials Science (all) | 263 / 475 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1965–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.6.
Nuclear Engineering and Design is Q2 in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (rank 98 of 282), Q2 in Nuclear Energy and Engineering (rank 30 of 85) and Q2 in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (rank 35 of 97), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Nuclear Engineering and Design 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.741, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 136.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,710 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.
Nuclear Engineering and Design is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0029-5493 and its online ISSN is 1872-759X.
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.
Nuclear Engineering and Design has an h-index of 152 and a 2-year mean of 3.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #55 of 199 Scopus journals in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.
Nuclear Engineering and Design published 798 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 819. 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 92 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (37.8%), United States (19.7%) and Japan (6.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 7 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 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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