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Nuclear Technology and Radiation Protection is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.7), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Vinca Inst Nuclear Sci.
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ISSN 1451-3994Verify ISSN ↗1452-8185Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Vinca Inst Nuclear Sci
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 149 / 282 | 47th | Q3 |
| Nuclear Energy and Engineering | 54 / 85 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.7.
Nuclear Technology and Radiation Protection is Q3 in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (rank 149 of 282) and Q3 in Nuclear Energy and Engineering (rank 54 of 85), by CiteScore 2025.
Nuclear Technology and Radiation Protection 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 47th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.295, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 22.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$161 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 Technology and Radiation Protection is published by Vinca Inst Nuclear Sci. Its print ISSN is 1451-3994 and its online ISSN is 1452-8185.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Nuclear Technology and Radiation Protection has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 1.75 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #97 of 199 Scopus journals in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.
Nuclear Technology and Radiation Protection published 41 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 60. 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 97 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (21.1%), Serbia (13.7%) and Vietnam (9.3%).
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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