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Nuclear Engineering and Technology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Korean Nuclear Society.
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ISSN 1738-5733Verify ISSN ↗2234-358XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Nuclear Society
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nuclear Energy and Engineering | 20 / 85 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.8.
Nuclear Engineering and Technology is Q1 in Nuclear Energy and Engineering (rank 20 of 85), by CiteScore 2025.
Nuclear Engineering and Technology 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.638, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 75.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$200 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 Technology is published by Korean Nuclear Society. Its print ISSN is 1738-5733 and its online ISSN is 2234-358X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Nuclear Engineering and Technology has an h-index of 84 and a 2-year mean of 2.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #21 of 77 Scopus journals in Nuclear Energy and Engineering.
Nuclear Engineering and Technology published 638 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 662. 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 81 research articles (2026), authors are most often from South Korea (36.4%), China (27.8%) and Türkiye (4.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 8 retracted papers are recorded (1.2 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.
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