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Pattern Recognition Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.8), 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 0167-8655Verify ISSN ↗1872-7344Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,500 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Signal Processing | 26 / 203 | 87th | Q1 |
| Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | 29 / 183 | 84th | Q1 |
| Software | 107 / 503 | 78th | Q1 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 133 / 570 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1982–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.8.
Pattern Recognition Letters is Q1 in Signal Processing (rank 26 of 203), Q1 in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (rank 29 of 183) and Q1 in Software (rank 107 of 503), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Pattern Recognition Letters 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 7.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.793, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 199.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,500 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 Letters is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0167-8655 and its online ISSN is 1872-7344.
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 Letters has an h-index of 221 and a 2-year mean of 3.77 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #36 of 127 Scopus journals in Signal Processing.
Pattern Recognition Letters published 353 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 383. 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 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (67%), India (5.9%) and Italy (4.1%). 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. 11 retracted papers are recorded (1.1 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 5 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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