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Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 14.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 1359-835XVerify ISSN ↗1878-5840Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,480 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanics of Materials | 19 / 408 | 95th | Q1 |
| Ceramics and Composites | 10 / 133 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 14.8.
Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing is Q1 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 19 of 408) and Q1 in Ceramics and Composites (rank 10 of 133), by CiteScore 2025.
Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing 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 14.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.517, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 240.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,480 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.
Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1359-835X and its online ISSN is 1878-5840.
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.
Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing has an h-index of 250 and a 2-year mean of 8.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 14.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #30 of 376 Scopus journals in Mechanics of Materials.
Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing published 744 papers in 2025. 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 82 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (69.9%), Hong Kong SAR China (4.7%) and Belgium (4.6%). 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. 3 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 per 1,000 papers). 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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