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Chinese Rare Earths is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.9). Published by Editorial Office of Chinese Rare Earths.
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ISSN 1004-0277Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Editorial Office of Chinese Rare Earths
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 147 / 182 | 19th | Q4 |
| Materials Chemistry | 284 / 327 | 13th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.9.
Chinese Rare Earths is Q4 in Metals and Alloys (rank 147 of 182) and Q4 in Materials Chemistry (rank 284 of 327), by CiteScore 2025.
Chinese Rare Earths is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q4, 19th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.150, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 19.
Chinese Rare Earths is published by Editorial Office of Chinese Rare Earths. Its ISSN is 1004-0277.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Chinese Rare Earths has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.18 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #137 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
Chinese Rare Earths published 72 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2009 with 109. 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.
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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