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SAE International Journal of Fuels and Lubricants is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.9), WoS ESCI. Published by SAE International.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1946-3952Verify ISSN ↗1946-3960Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAE International
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fuel Technology | 88 / 138 | 36th | Q3 |
| Pollution | 128 / 180 | 29th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.9.
SAE International Journal of Fuels and Lubricants is Q3 in Fuel Technology (rank 88 of 138) and Q3 in Pollution (rank 128 of 180), by CiteScore 2025.
SAE International Journal of Fuels and Lubricants 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 1.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 36th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.302, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 58.
SAE International Journal of Fuels and Lubricants is published by SAE International. Its print ISSN is 1946-3952 and its online ISSN is 1946-3960.
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 Fuels and Lubricants has an h-index of 66 and a 2-year mean of 1.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #66 of 122 Scopus journals in Fuel Technology.
SAE International Journal of Fuels and Lubricants published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 82. 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 91 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (32.8%), Germany (11.7%) and India (10.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.9 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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