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Solar Compass is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 9.2), DOAJ. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 87 / 345 | 74th | Q2 |
| Energy (miscellaneous) | 31 / 106 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 9.2.
Solar Compass is Q2 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 87 of 345) and Q2 in Energy (miscellaneous) (rank 31 of 106), by CiteScore 2025.
Solar Compass 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 9.2, quartile Q2, 74th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.253, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 17.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$500 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.
Solar Compass is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its ISSN is 2772-9400.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Solar Compass has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 5.48 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #89 of 304 Scopus journals in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.
Solar Compass published 46 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (25.4%), United States (8.8%) and Ghana (6.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (17.8 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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