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APL Materials is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by American Institute of Physics.
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ISSN 2166-532XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering (all) | 48 / 351 | 86th | Q1 |
| Materials Science (all) | 122 / 475 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.3.
APL Materials is Q1 in Engineering (all) (rank 48 of 351) and Q2 in Materials Science (all) (rank 122 of 475), by CiteScore 2025.
APL 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 7.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.987, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 104.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,200 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.
APL Materials is published by American Institute of Physics. Its ISSN is 2166-532X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
APL Materials has an h-index of 112 and a 2-year mean of 5.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #26 of 299 Scopus journals in Engineering (all).
APL Materials published 294 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 355. 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (21.8%), China (18%) and Japan (12.9%).
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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