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Solar Energy and Sustainable Development is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.5), DOAJ. Published by Libyan Center for Solar Energy Research and Studies.
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ISSN 2411-9636Verify ISSN ↗2414-6013Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Libyan Center for Solar Energy Research and Studies
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Engineering | 79 / 241 | 67th | Q2 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 148 / 345 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.5.
Solar Energy and Sustainable Development is Q2 in Environmental Engineering (rank 79 of 241) and Q2 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 148 of 345), by CiteScore 2025.
Solar Energy and Sustainable Development 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 5.5, quartile Q2, 67th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.902, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 12.
Solar Energy and Sustainable Development is published by Libyan Center for Solar Energy Research and Studies. Its print ISSN is 2411-9636 and its online ISSN is 2414-6013.
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 Energy and Sustainable Development has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 4.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #42 of 220 Scopus journals in Environmental Engineering.
Solar Energy and Sustainable Development published 58 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 74. 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 95 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Morocco (44%), Libya (11.6%) and Algeria (9.6%).
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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