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Thermal Science is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.3), WoS SCIE. Published by Serbian Society of Heat Transfer Engineers.
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ISSN 0354-9836Verify ISSN ↗2334-7163Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Serbian Society of Heat Transfer Engineers
Cost to publish: About US$161 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 232 / 345 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.3.
Thermal Science is Q3 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 232 of 345), by CiteScore 2025.
Thermal Science 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 2.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 32nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.262, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 64.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$161 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.
Thermal Science is published by Serbian Society of Heat Transfer Engineers. Its print ISSN is 0354-9836 and its online ISSN is 2334-7163.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal per Scopus.
Thermal Science has an h-index of 67 and a 2-year mean of 1.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #233 of 304 Scopus journals in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.
Thermal Science published 415 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 591. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (75.8%), Serbia (5.1%) and India (3%). 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. 6 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 3 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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