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Emergent Materials is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 6.7), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2522-5731Verify ISSN ↗2522-574XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: About US$2,890 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waste Management and Disposal | 47 / 151 | 69th | Q2 |
| Ceramics and Composites | 42 / 133 | 68th | Q2 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 128 / 345 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Biomaterials | 60 / 146 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 6.7.
Emergent Materials is Q2 in Waste Management and Disposal (rank 47 of 151), Q2 in Ceramics and Composites (rank 42 of 133) and Q2 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 128 of 345), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Emergent 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 6.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.727, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 47.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,890 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.
Emergent Materials is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 2522-5731 and its online ISSN is 2522-574X.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Emergent Materials has an h-index of 56 and a 2-year mean of 4.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #43 of 139 Scopus journals in Waste Management and Disposal.
Emergent Materials published 320 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 344. 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (26.3%), Saudi Arabia (7.1%) and Mexico (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 (9.2 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.
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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