New Scopus CiteScore of 1.1 for Nuclear Energy and Technology

The 2025 Scopus CiteScore for Nuclear Energy and Technology has been released, reporting an improved value of 1.1, up from 0.5 the previous year. The journal has also moved up from Q4 to Q3 for its indexed category, Nuclear Energy and Engineering.

Traditionally announced in June, the Scopus CiteScore is a dynamic academic metric that reflects the citation rate of the content published in a particular journal over a past period. A Scopus CiteScore is estimated for each journal indexed in Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature.

The CiteScore is derived by dividing the number of citations received over the past four full calendar years by the number of peer-reviewed publications published in that same timeframe. Only citations originating from other Scopus-indexed sources are included in the calculation. The Scopus CiteScore 2025 reflects data from 2022 to 2025.

Complementing this annual metric, Scopus also maintains the CiteScoreTracker, which offers a monthly update based on the same formula but incorporates citation data from the ongoing year. For Nuclear Energy and Technology, the current CiteScoreTracker draws on content published from 2023 through the latest complete month of 2026, offering a more immediate view of the journal's citation dynamics.

The latest Scopus CiteScore and the CiteScoreTracker are automatically displayed on the journal website's homepage. They also appear in the journal's newsletter.