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Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 0954-4062Verify ISSN ↗2041-2983Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,150 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 270 / 740 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1983–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.3.
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science is Q2 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 270 of 740), by CiteScore 2025.
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science 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 4.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.393, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 81.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,150 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 Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0954-4062 and its online ISSN is 2041-2983.
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 Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science has an h-index of 87 and a 2-year mean of 1.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #307 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science published 588 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 719. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (60.8%), India (12.6%) and Iran (7%). 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. 13 retracted papers are recorded (1.3 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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