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Wave Motion is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4), 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 0165-2125Verify ISSN ↗1878-433XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,640 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Mathematics | 158 / 680 | 76th | Q1 |
| Computational Mathematics | 62 / 212 | 70th | Q2 |
| Modeling and Simulation | 127 / 397 | 68th | Q2 |
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 88 / 248 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1979–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.
Wave Motion is Q1 in Applied Mathematics (rank 158 of 680), Q2 in Computational Mathematics (rank 62 of 212) and Q2 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 127 of 397), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Wave Motion 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 4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.499, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 75.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,640 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.
Wave Motion is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0165-2125 and its online ISSN is 1878-433X.
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.
Wave Motion has an h-index of 90 and a 2-year mean of 2.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #125 of 621 Scopus journals in Applied Mathematics.
Wave Motion published 157 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 91 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (40.3%), India (9.4%) and United States (5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 per 1,000 papers). 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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