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Composites Science and Technology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 18.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0266-3538Verify ISSN ↗1879-1050Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$4,610 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering (all) | 7 / 351 | 98th | Q1 |
| Ceramics and Composites | 8 / 133 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1985–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 18.3.
Composites Science and Technology is Q1 in Engineering (all) (rank 7 of 351) and Q1 in Ceramics and Composites (rank 8 of 133), by CiteScore 2025.
Composites Science and Technology 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 18.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.724, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 269.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,610 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 Science and Technology is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0266-3538 and its online ISSN is 1879-1050.
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 Science and Technology has an h-index of 281 and a 2-year mean of 11.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 18.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 299 Scopus journals in Engineering (all).
Composites Science and Technology published 383 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 550. 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 84 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (63.3%), United Kingdom (3.9%) and India (3.6%). 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. 12 retracted papers are recorded (1 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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