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Signal Processing is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0165-1684Verify ISSN ↗1872-7557Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Signal Processing | 22 / 203 | 89th | Q1 |
| Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | 28 / 183 | 84th | Q1 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 161 / 1030 | 84th | Q1 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 65 / 390 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Software | 98 / 503 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1979–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.3.
Signal Processing is Q1 in Signal Processing (rank 22 of 203), Q1 in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (rank 28 of 183) and Q1 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 161 of 1030), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Signal Processing 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 8.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.797, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 177.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,190 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.
Signal Processing is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0165-1684 and its online ISSN is 1872-7557.
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.
Signal Processing has an h-index of 204 and a 2-year mean of 3.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #41 of 127 Scopus journals in Signal Processing.
Signal Processing published 508 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 88 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (80.2%), India (8%) and France (2.3%). 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. 9 retracted papers are recorded (0.7 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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