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Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.1), 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 0927-0248Verify ISSN ↗1879-3398Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$4,340 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 35 / 318 | 89th | Q1 |
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 18 / 141 | 87th | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 60 / 345 | 82nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–present (also 1970), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.1.
Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells is Q1 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 35 of 318), Q1 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 18 of 141) and Q1 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 60 of 345), by CiteScore 2025.
Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 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 12.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.183, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 235.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,340 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 Energy Materials and Solar Cells is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0927-0248 and its online ISSN is 1879-3398.
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.
Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells has an h-index of 250 and a 2-year mean of 7.48 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #29 of 269 Scopus journals in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.
Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells published 657 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 855. 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 (55.2%), India (8.1%) and Germany (5.9%). 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. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 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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