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Proceedings of the Combustion Institute is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.9), 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 1540-7489Verify ISSN ↗1873-2704Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,570 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 143 / 740 | 80th | Q1 |
| Chemical Engineering (all) | 72 / 270 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Physical and Theoretical Chemistry | 56 / 194 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present (also 2021, 2019, 2017, 2015, 2013, 2011, 2009, 2007, 2005, 2002, 2000), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.9.
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute is Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 143 of 740), Q2 in Chemical Engineering (all) (rank 72 of 270) and Q2 in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (rank 56 of 194), by CiteScore 2025.
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 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 6.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.462, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 180.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,570 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.
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1540-7489 and its online ISSN is 1873-2704.
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.
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute has an h-index of 174 and a 2-year mean of 3.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #149 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute published 213 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 698. 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (24.7%), United States (14%) and Germany (10%).
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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