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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 36.8), ABDC A, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier ScienceDirect.
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ISSN 1364-0321Verify ISSN ↗1879-0690Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier ScienceDirect
Cost to publish: About US$5,220 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 7 / 345 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 36.8.
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews is Q1 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 7 of 345), by CiteScore 2025.
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 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 36.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.995, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 501.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$5,220 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.
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews is published by Elsevier ScienceDirect. Its print ISSN is 1364-0321 and its online ISSN is 1879-0690.
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 rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews has an h-index of 554 and a 2-year mean of 18.33 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 36.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #8 of 304 Scopus journals in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews published 1,218 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 1,968. 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 85 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (44.6%), India (9.5%) and South Korea (4.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 65 retracted papers are recorded (3.8 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 16 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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