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Diamond and Related Materials is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.2), 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 0925-9635Verify ISSN ↗1879-0062Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,690 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 33 / 248 | 86th | Q1 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 104 / 740 | 86th | Q1 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 163 / 1030 | 84th | Q1 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 59 / 318 | 81st | Q1 |
| Chemistry (all) | 80 / 402 | 80th | Q1 |
| Materials Chemistry | 76 / 327 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.2.
Diamond and Related Materials is Q1 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 33 of 248), Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 104 of 740) and Q1 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 163 of 1030), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Diamond and Related Materials 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 8.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.746, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 134.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,690 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.
Diamond and Related Materials is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0925-9635 and its online ISSN is 1879-0062.
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.
Diamond and Related Materials has an h-index of 145 and a 2-year mean of 5.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #22 of 235 Scopus journals in Physics and Astronomy (all).
Diamond and Related Materials published 1,275 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 81 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (41.1%), India (10.8%) and Japan (6.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 14 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 3 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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