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Discover Materials is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Discover.
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ISSN 2730-7727Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Discover
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 59 / 182 | 67th | Q2 |
| Materials Science (miscellaneous) | 114 / 256 | 55th | Q2 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 160 / 318 | 49th | Q3 |
| Biomaterials | 88 / 146 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.
Discover Materials is Q2 in Metals and Alloys (rank 59 of 182), Q2 in Materials Science (miscellaneous) (rank 114 of 256) and Q3 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 160 of 318), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Discover Materials 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 4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.785, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 20.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,590 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.
Discover Materials is published by Discover. Its ISSN is 2730-7727.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Discover Materials has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 4.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #35 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
Discover Materials published 323 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (38.5%), Egypt (5.1%) and Ethiopia (3.8%).
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 1 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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