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Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1029-4953Verify ISSN ↗1042-0150Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radiation | 34 / 75 | 55th | Q2 |
| Nuclear and High Energy Physics | 57 / 97 | 41st | Q3 |
| Materials Science (all) | 333 / 475 | 30th | Q3 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 319 / 446 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.1.
Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids is Q2 in Radiation (rank 34 of 75), Q3 in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (rank 57 of 97) and Q3 in Materials Science (all) (rank 333 of 475), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 55th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.261, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 38.
Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1029-4953 and its online ISSN is 1042-0150.
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.
Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids has an h-index of 50 and a 2-year mean of 1.94 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #19 of 62 Scopus journals in Radiation.
Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids published 157 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 171. 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 94 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (21.7%), China (15.8%) and Türkiye (12.7%).
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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