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Progress in Nuclear Energy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.4), 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 0149-1970Verify ISSN ↗1878-4224Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$2,930 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nuclear Energy and Engineering | 15 / 85 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 51 / 282 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 93 / 347 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Waste Management and Disposal | 52 / 151 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present (also 1990–1992, 1977–1988), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.4.
Progress in Nuclear Energy is Q1 in Nuclear Energy and Engineering (rank 15 of 85), Q1 in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (rank 51 of 282) and Q2 in Energy Engineering and Power Technology (rank 93 of 347), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Progress in Nuclear Energy 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 6.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.871, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 98.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,930 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 Nuclear Energy is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0149-1970 and its online ISSN is 1878-4224.
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 Nuclear Energy has an h-index of 107 and a 2-year mean of 3.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #16 of 77 Scopus journals in Nuclear Energy and Engineering.
Progress in Nuclear Energy published 530 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 92 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (59.1%), United States (7.1%) and South Korea (2.9%). 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. 6 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 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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