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SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.7). Published by Society of Motion and Television Engineers.
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ISSN 1545-0279Verify ISSN ↗2160-2492Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Society of Motion and Television Engineers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Media Technology | 57 / 83 | 31st | Q3 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 861 / 1030 | 16th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–2024, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.7.
SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal is Q3 in Media Technology (rank 57 of 83) and Q4 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 861 of 1030), by CiteScore 2025.
SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q3, 31st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.111, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 23.
SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal is published by Society of Motion and Television Engineers. Its print ISSN is 1545-0279 and its online ISSN is 2160-2492.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 0.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #48 of 54 Scopus journals in Media Technology.
SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal published 74 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 269. 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.
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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