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Special Topics and Reviews in Porous Media is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.2), WoS ESCI. Published by Begell House Inc..
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ISSN 2151-4798Verify ISSN ↗2151-562XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Begell House Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering (all) | 111 / 351 | 68th | Q2 |
| Materials Science (all) | 231 / 475 | 51st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.2.
Special Topics and Reviews in Porous Media is Q2 in Engineering (all) (rank 111 of 351) and Q2 in Materials Science (all) (rank 231 of 475), by CiteScore 2025.
Special Topics and Reviews in Porous Media 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 4.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.419, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 26.
Special Topics and Reviews in Porous Media is published by Begell House Inc. Its print ISSN is 2151-4798 and its online ISSN is 2151-562X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Special Topics and Reviews in Porous Media has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 1.45 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #127 of 299 Scopus journals in Engineering (all).
Special Topics and Reviews in Porous Media published 35 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 57. 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 91 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from India (46.8%), Egypt (7%) and Pakistan (5.9%).
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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