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China Foundry is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 1672-6421Verify ISSN ↗2365-9459Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 55 / 182 | 70th | Q2 |
| Materials Chemistry | 166 / 327 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.3.
China Foundry is Q2 in Metals and Alloys (rank 55 of 182) and Q3 in Materials Chemistry (rank 166 of 327), by CiteScore 2025.
China Foundry 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 4.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.563, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 30.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,990 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.
China Foundry is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 1672-6421 and its online ISSN is 2365-9459.
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.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
China Foundry has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 3.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #47 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
China Foundry published 77 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 77. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (94.8%), South Korea (1%) and Israel (0.5%). 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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