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Satellite Navigation is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 19.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Springer International Publishing.
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ISSN 2662-1363Verify ISSN ↗2662-9291Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aerospace Engineering | 2 / 169 | 99th | Q1 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 25 / 1030 | 97th | Q1 |
| Signal Processing | 6 / 203 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 19.9.
Satellite Navigation is Q1 in Aerospace Engineering (rank 2 of 169), Q1 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 25 of 1030) and Q1 in Signal Processing (rank 6 of 203), by CiteScore 2025.
Satellite Navigation 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 19.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.423, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 40.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,670 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.
Satellite Navigation is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2662-1363 and its online ISSN is 2662-9291.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Satellite Navigation has an h-index of 45 and a 2-year mean of 12.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 19.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 141 Scopus journals in Aerospace Engineering.
Satellite Navigation published 34 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 98 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (77.9%), Hong Kong SAR China (5.3%) and Spain (4.4%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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