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Fire and Materials is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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ISSN 0308-0501Verify ISSN ↗1099-1018Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,760 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 43 / 182 | 76th | Q1 |
| Chemistry (all) | 137 / 402 | 66th | Q2 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 110 / 318 | 65th | Q2 |
| Ceramics and Composites | 55 / 133 | 59th | Q2 |
| Polymers and Plastics | 73 / 168 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–present (also 1978–1989, 1976), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.4.
Fire and Materials is Q1 in Metals and Alloys (rank 43 of 182), Q2 in Chemistry (all) (rank 137 of 402) and Q2 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 110 of 318), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Fire and 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 5.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.521, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 76.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,760 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.
Fire and Materials is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0308-0501 and its online ISSN is 1099-1018.
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.
Fire and Materials has an h-index of 91 and a 2-year mean of 1.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #74 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
Fire and Materials published 92 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 149. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (27.6%), Sweden (8.4%) and United Kingdom (8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.3 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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