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Pattern Recognition is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 17.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0031-3203Verify ISSN ↗1873-5142Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$2,590 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Signal Processing | 9 / 203 | 95th | Q1 |
| Software | 22 / 503 | 95th | Q1 |
| Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | 11 / 183 | 94th | Q1 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 37 / 570 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1968–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 17.3.
Pattern Recognition is Q1 in Signal Processing (rank 9 of 203), Q1 in Software (rank 22 of 503) and Q1 in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (rank 11 of 183), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Pattern Recognition 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 17.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.147, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 267.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,590 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.
Pattern Recognition is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0031-3203 and its online ISSN is 1873-5142.
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.
Pattern Recognition has an h-index of 302 and a 2-year mean of 6.64 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 17.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #9 of 127 Scopus journals in Signal Processing.
Pattern Recognition published 1,565 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 90 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (77.3%), Hong Kong SAR China (4.1%) and United Kingdom (3.4%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 17 retracted papers are recorded (1 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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