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SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.8). Published by Springer Publishing Company.
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ISSN 2191-530XVerify ISSN ↗2191-5318Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 267 / 347 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Mathematics (all) | 336 / 414 | 18th | Q4 |
| Engineering (all) | 303 / 351 | 13th | Q4 |
| Chemical Engineering (all) | 236 / 270 | 12th | Q4 |
| Materials Science (all) | 419 / 475 | 11th | Q4 |
| Biotechnology | 289 / 325 | 11th | 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 2011–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.8.
SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology is Q4 in Energy Engineering and Power Technology (rank 267 of 347), Q4 in Mathematics (all) (rank 336 of 414) and Q4 in Engineering (all) (rank 303 of 351), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology 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 0.8, quartile Q4, 23rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology is published by Springer Publishing Company. Its print ISSN is 2191-530X and its online ISSN is 2191-5318.
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.
SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology has an h-index of 64 and a 2-year mean of 0.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #187 of 257 Scopus journals in Energy Engineering and Power Technology.
SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology published 560 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 645. 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 8 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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