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Smart Energy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 71 / 740 | 90th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 51 / 432 | 88th | Q1 |
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 55 / 347 | 84th | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 79 / 345 | 77th | Q1 |
| Energy (miscellaneous) | 27 / 106 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.
Smart Energy is Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 71 of 740), Q1 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 51 of 432) and Q1 in Energy Engineering and Power Technology (rank 55 of 347), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Smart Energy 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 10, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.284, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 26.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,750 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.
Smart Energy is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its ISSN is 2666-9552.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Smart Energy has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 5.33 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #75 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Smart Energy published 49 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 94 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Germany (20.2%), Italy (10.5%) and Denmark (7.6%).
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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