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Quality and Reliability Engineering International is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.4), ABS / AJG 1, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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ISSN 0748-8017Verify ISSN ↗1099-1638Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,550 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 66 / 282 | 76th | Q1 |
| Management Science and Operations Research | 78 / 225 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1985–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.4.
Quality and Reliability Engineering International is Q1 in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (rank 66 of 282) and Q2 in Management Science and Operations Research (rank 78 of 225), by CiteScore 2025.
Quality and Reliability Engineering International 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 5.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.603, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 81.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,550 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.
Quality and Reliability Engineering International is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0748-8017 and its online ISSN is 1099-1638.
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.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Operations and Technology Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Quality and Reliability Engineering International has an h-index of 89 and a 2-year mean of 2.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #71 of 199 Scopus journals in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.
Quality and Reliability Engineering International published 261 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (31.3%), India (11.4%) and Pakistan (7.8%).
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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