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Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 26.8), 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 1359-0286Verify ISSN ↗1879-0348Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,340 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Materials Science (all) | 12 / 475 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present (also 1996–1999), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 26.8.
Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science is Q1 in Materials Science (all) (rank 12 of 475), by CiteScore 2025.
Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science 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 26.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.723, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 144.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,340 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.
Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1359-0286 and its online ISSN is 1879-0348.
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.
Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science has an h-index of 153 and a 2-year mean of 13.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 26.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #15 of 438 Scopus journals in Materials Science (all).
Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 42. 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 94 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (27.8%), China (20.1%) and South Korea (13.9%).
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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