Kerntechnik

Kerntechnik is published by Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG and is in Zone 4 of Engineering in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Nuclear reactor physics and engineering, Nuclear Materials and Properties and Nuclear and radioactivity studies, together about 41.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Aerospace Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

About this journal The current volume of Kerntechnik is open access via Subscribe to Open (S2O). All accepted articles will be published under a Creative Commons license at no cost to authors. Learn more about De Gruyter Brill’s Subscribe to Open program.Kerntechnik is an independent journal for nuclear engineering (including design, operation, safety and economics of nuclear power stations, research reactors and simulators), energy systems, radiation (ionizing radiation in industry and research) and radiological protection (biological effects of ionizing radiation, the system of protection for occupational and public exposures, the assessment of doses, operational protection and safety programs, management of radioactive wastes, decommissioning and regulatory requirements). For more than 75 years Kerntechnik offers original scientific and technical contributions, review papers and conference reports. All articles are subject to thorough, independent peer review. HistoryIn 1956, the publisher Karl Thiemig founded the journal ATOMKERNENERGIE after the Paris Treaties of May 1955 enabled the Federal Republic of Germany to re-enter nuclear technology. The dynamic scientific development that started at that time prompted Karl Thiemig to launch a second technical journal, KERNTECHNIK. At the end of 1970, the journal ATOMPRAXIS, published by Verlag Braun, was merged into KERNTECHNIK.In 1979, the journals ATOMKERNENERGIE and KERNTECHNIK in turn merged into one journal with the ATOMKERNENERGIE/KERNTECHNIK. When the Thiemig publishing house ceased its operations in early 1986, Carl Hanser Verlag acquired the journal and continued to publish it under the title KERNTECHNIK from 1987.KERNTECHNIK is the only independent German journal publishing scientific articles in English in the fields of nuclear technology and radiation protection. During the last decade, KERNTECHNIK has increasingly developed into a journal respected by international experts. In order to secure KERNTECHNIK for the future, in which high visibility of publications, the impact factor and open access play an increasingly decisive role, Carl Hanser Verlag has decided to place the journal KERNTECHNIK into the hands of the very renowned and successful scientific publisher Walter de Gruyter as of 01.01.2021 (De Gruyter Brill since 2024).Complete Archive AccessAs of 2026, all De Gruyter journal subscriptions include access to every issue, from Volume 1, Issue 1 through to today, meaning subscribers can acc

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Nuclear Science & Technology

Editor-in-chief Anne KrüssenbergPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

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Impact

Impact factor

0.85LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

0.9Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher)

0.6Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

1.8LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

1.8Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.27LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.46LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

17LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

25OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

147OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.96OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

11.1%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

4.52%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

45LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Average review time (community reports)

6–12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG

Country or region

GERMANY

Language

Multi-Language

Frequency

Quarterly

Founded

1987

ISSN

0932-3902

Electronic ISSN

2195-8580

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website