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Wind is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI).
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ISSN 2674-032XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering (miscellaneous) | 95 / 300 | 68th | Q2 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 118 / 307 | 61st | Q2 |
| Energy (miscellaneous) | 49 / 106 | 54th | Q2 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 174 / 345 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.5.
Wind is Q2 in Engineering (miscellaneous) (rank 95 of 300), Q2 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 118 of 307) and Q2 in Energy (miscellaneous) (rank 49 of 106), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Wind 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.557, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 12.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,207 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.
Wind is published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). Its ISSN is 2674-032X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Wind has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 2.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #114 of 268 Scopus journals in Engineering (miscellaneous).
Wind published 36 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 43. 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 96 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (8.9%), China (7.3%) and Iraq (5.7%).
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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