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SAE International Journal of Aerospace is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6), WoS ESCI. Published by SAE International.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1946-3855Verify ISSN ↗1946-3901Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAE International
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aerospace Engineering | 115 / 169 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
SAE International Journal of Aerospace is Q3 in Aerospace Engineering (rank 115 of 169), by CiteScore 2025.
SAE International Journal of Aerospace is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 32nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.173, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 27.
SAE International Journal of Aerospace is published by SAE International. Its print ISSN is 1946-3855 and its online ISSN is 1946-3901.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
SAE International Journal of Aerospace has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 0.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #94 of 141 Scopus journals in Aerospace Engineering.
SAE International Journal of Aerospace published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 29. 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 83 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from India (30.7%), United States (26.2%) and China (12.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (1.3 per 1,000 papers). 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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