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CIS Iron and Steel Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Ore and Metals Publishing house.
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ISSN 2072-0815Verify ISSN ↗2414-1089Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Ore and Metals Publishing house
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 83 / 182 | 54th | Q2 |
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 207 / 425 | 51st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.6.
CIS Iron and Steel Review is Q2 in Metals and Alloys (rank 83 of 182) and Q2 in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (rank 207 of 425), by CiteScore 2025.
CIS Iron and Steel Review is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 2.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 54th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.521, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 20.
CIS Iron and Steel Review is published by Ore and Metals Publishing house. Its print ISSN is 2072-0815 and its online ISSN is 2414-1089.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
CIS Iron and Steel Review has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 1.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #82 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
CIS Iron and Steel Review published 37 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 39. 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 86 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Russia (69.7%), Kazakhstan (7.9%) and Zimbabwe (7.2%). 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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