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Advanced Fiber Materials is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 35.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2524-7921Verify ISSN ↗2524-793XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: About US$3,390 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polymers and Plastics | 2 / 168 | 99th | Q1 |
| Materials Science (miscellaneous) | 4 / 256 | 98th | Q1 |
| Materials Chemistry | 7 / 327 | 98th | Q1 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 7 / 318 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 35.8.
Advanced Fiber Materials is Q1 in Polymers and Plastics (rank 2 of 168), Q1 in Materials Science (miscellaneous) (rank 4 of 256) and Q1 in Materials Chemistry (rank 7 of 327), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Advanced Fiber Materials 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 35.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 4.106, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 76.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,390 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.
Advanced Fiber Materials is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 2524-7921 and its online ISSN is 2524-793X.
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.
Advanced Fiber Materials has an h-index of 92 and a 2-year mean of 19.57 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 35.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 158 Scopus journals in Polymers and Plastics.
Advanced Fiber Materials published 140 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 154. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (66.9%), South Korea (10%) and Hong Kong SAR China (5.6%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. 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.
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