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Acta Materialia is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 16.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Acta Materialia Inc.
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ISSN 1359-6454Verify ISSN ↗1873-2453Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Acta Materialia Inc
Cost to publish: About US$3,700 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 6 / 182 | 96th | Q1 |
| Ceramics and Composites | 9 / 133 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Polymers and Plastics | 12 / 168 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 23 / 318 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 16.1.
Acta Materialia is Q1 in Metals and Alloys (rank 6 of 182), Q1 in Ceramics and Composites (rank 9 of 133) and Q1 in Polymers and Plastics (rank 12 of 168), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Acta Materialia is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 16.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.825, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 405.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,700 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.
Acta Materialia is published by Acta Materialia Inc. Its print ISSN is 1359-6454 and its online ISSN is 1873-2453.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Acta Materialia has an h-index of 420 and a 2-year mean of 10.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 16.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #8 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
Acta Materialia published 1,042 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 1,210. 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 79 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (34.5%), United States (21.4%) and Japan (9.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (0.1 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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