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Theoretical Foundations of Chemical Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Pleiades Publishing.
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ISSN 0040-5795Verify ISSN ↗1608-3431Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemical Engineering (all) | 234 / 270 | 13th | Q4 |
| Chemistry (all) | 354 / 402 | 11th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1974–1992), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.8.
Theoretical Foundations of Chemical Engineering is Q4 in Chemical Engineering (all) (rank 234 of 270) and Q4 in Chemistry (all) (rank 354 of 402), by CiteScore 2025.
Theoretical Foundations of Chemical Engineering 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 13th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.197, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 31.
Theoretical Foundations of Chemical Engineering is published by Pleiades Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0040-5795 and its online ISSN is 1608-3431.
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.
Theoretical Foundations of Chemical Engineering has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 0.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #208 of 246 Scopus journals in Chemical Engineering (all).
Theoretical Foundations of Chemical Engineering published 309 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Russia (87.9%), Armenia (9.1%) and Azerbaijan (1%). 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 (1.1 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.
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