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Progress in Energy and Combustion Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 87.5), 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 0360-1285Verify ISSN ↗1873-216XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$6,990 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 1 / 347 | 99th | Q1 |
| Chemical Engineering (all) | 1 / 270 | 99th | Q1 |
| Fuel Technology | 1 / 138 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1975–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 87.5.
Progress in Energy and Combustion Science is Q1 in Energy Engineering and Power Technology (rank 1 of 347), Q1 in Chemical Engineering (all) (rank 1 of 270) and Q1 in Fuel Technology (rank 1 of 138), by CiteScore 2025.
Progress in Energy and Combustion 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 87.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 8.013, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 257.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$6,990 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.
Progress in Energy and Combustion Science is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0360-1285 and its online ISSN is 1873-216X.
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.
Progress in Energy and Combustion Science has an h-index of 288 and a 2-year mean of 35.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 87.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 257 Scopus journals in Energy Engineering and Power Technology.
Progress in Energy and Combustion Science published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 50. 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 95 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from China (22.2%), United States (15.3%) and India (5%).
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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