Journal of Fire Sciences

ISSN 0734-9041 · SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom · active 1983–2026

Metrics

Scimago quartile
Q3
Cites per paper (2y)
2.0
SJR
0.312
h-index
61

“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric. Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline.

Indexing & access

ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed

Access status: hybrid. Where this comes from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic — confirm on the journal’s own site, especially regarding any article processing charge.

Scope

firedynamicssafetyriskreliabilityqualityflameretardantmaterialspropertiespolymersplastics

Frequently asked

Is Journal of Fire Sciences a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag Journal of Fire Sciences. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, which is a positive signal.

Is Journal of Fire Sciences indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, Journal of Fire Sciences appears in: Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is Journal of Fire Sciences's impact?

Papers in Journal of Fire Sciences are cited about 2.0 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q3, with an h-index of 61. This is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric — and a citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

Is Journal of Fire Sciences open access?

Our index records its access status as "hybrid". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.

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