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Baozha Yu Chongji/Expolosion and Shock Waves

ISSN 1001-1455 · Explosion and Shock Waves

Baozha Yu Chongji/Expolosion and Shock Waves: fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; 0 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.

Impact factor—No published value
CAS zone—Not in the CAS Journal Ranking
CiteScore quartileQ3General Physics and Astronomy · rank 132/248 · 46th percentile
Review time—No reports yet
APCCharged, amount not publishedFully open access
Acceptance—No reports yet
Articles per year02025 · OpenAlex count

Scope

Aims, scope and focus

Baozha Yu Chongji/Expolosion and Shock Waves is published by Explosion and Shock Waves. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior, Structural Response to Dynamic Loads and Rock Mechanics and Modeling, together about 44.7% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Explosion and Shock Waves (Baozha yu Chongji) aims at reporting the latest scientific and technological achievements in the field of explosion mechanics and impact dynamics, presenting the progress and level of academic frontiers, promoting the academic exchanges, building a growth platform for young talents in the field, and facilitating the development of theories and applications in explosion mechanics and, technologies in anti-explosion and safety.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Physics and Astronomy-Physics and Astronomy (all)

Editor-in-chief SUN ChengweiPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 9 in mainland China (about 82%); most named Mainland China 9, United Kingdom 1, France 1 (11 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·

Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate

  1. High-Velocity Impact and Material BehaviorMaterials Science23.5%
  2. Structural Response to Dynamic LoadsEngineering13.9%
  3. Rock Mechanics and ModelingEngineering7.3%
  4. Combustion and Detonation ProcessesEngineering7.3%
  5. Energetic Materials and CombustionEngineering6.9%
  6. Blasting Impact and AnalysisEngineering4.9%
  7. Computational Fluid Dynamics and AerodynamicsEngineering4.3%
  8. Cellular and Composite StructuresEngineering3.9%

Rankings & indexing

CAS ranking and database indexing

CAS Journal Ranking

CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered

Not covered by this edition.

CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered

Not covered by this edition.

CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered

Not covered by this edition.

CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)

SubjectQuartileRankPercentile
General Physics and AstronomyQ3132/24846th

Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub

Database indexing

ScopusDOAJLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

EI CompendexCASPublisher website

Other: EI, CA, JST, EBSCO, Chinese Journal Full-text Database (www.cnki.net) - CNKI

As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.

Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.

Metrics

Impact metrics and publication volume

Impact

CiteScore 2026-06
2.4LetPub ·
SJR 2026-06
0.33LetPub ·
SNIP 2026-06
0.66LetPub ·
h-index
12OpenAlex ·
i10-index
22OpenAlex ·
2-year mean citedness
0OpenAlex ·
Share of gold OA articles
0%LetPub ·

Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,193 in total · the current year is incomplete

YearArticlesOpen accessCitations
2026002
202500147
202400168
202300157
202200128
202100149

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Review & acceptance

Review time and acceptance

Submission to publication (journal-reported)
about 36 weeksDOAJ ·
Peer review
Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

Fees & open access

APC and open-access policy

Fully open accessDOAJ

Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).

SourceAPCFee waiverLicenseObserved
DOAJCNY 2,500NoCC BY-NC
Publisher websiteCNY 2,500——

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Submission

Article types and submission policies (journal website)

Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright, Plagiarism, Self-archiving
License & copyright

Authors must sign a Copyright Transfer Agreement transferring copyright to the Editorial Department. Model summary

Authors are required to sign a Copyright Transfer Agreement with the Editorial Department (see https://www.bzycj.cn/news/CopyrightItems/f8260dbc-1f9d-4a85-b98c-8d33cb8ddfe8_en.htm for details), transferring the copyright of the manuscript to the Editorial Department.

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Plagiarism Plagiarism Check

Plagiarism check with repetition ratio no more than 5% using CNKI plagiarism system at first inner review, before acceptance, and before publication. Model summary

Authors are required to submit the original and creative achievements that are contained in the manuscript with a repetition ratio of no more than 5%. The editorial department will carry out plagiarism checks at the first inner review, before the acceptance, and before the publication, by using the CNKI plagiarism system. If it is found at any process that plagiarism is involved, the editorial pro…

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Self-archiving

All versions of the work are re-posited on the official website and accessible via author's submission system account. Model summary

All versions of the authors' work, including the submitted manuscript, the accepted version, and the published article will be re-posited on the official website of Explosion and Shock Waves, and can be accessed by the authors through their account of the submission system.

Source ↗Publisher website ·

Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Profile

Publication details and official links

Publisher
Explosion and Shock Waves
ISSN
1001-1455
Official links

FAQ

Frequently asked questions about Baozha Yu Chongji/Expolosion and Shock Waves

Where are the editorial board members of Baozha Yu Chongji/Expolosion and Shock Waves based?

Of the 11 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 9 (about 82%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Mainland China (9), United Kingdom (1) and France (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.

Which databases index Baozha Yu Chongji/Expolosion and Shock Waves?

According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Baozha Yu Chongji/Expolosion and Shock Waves is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists EI Compendex and CAS; that list has not been checked against each database.

Is Baozha Yu Chongji/Expolosion and Shock Waves open access, and what is the APC?

Baozha Yu Chongji/Expolosion and Shock Waves is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.

Sources and updates

The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .