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Forces in Mechanics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2666-3597Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 98 / 740 | 86th | Q1 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 68 / 408 | 83rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.5.
Forces in Mechanics is Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 98 of 740) and Q1 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 68 of 408), by CiteScore 2025.
Forces in Mechanics 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 8.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.634, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 26.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,050 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.
Forces in Mechanics is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2666-3597.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Forces in Mechanics has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 4.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #121 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Forces in Mechanics published 39 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 84. 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 92 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Iran (21.6%), China (17.4%) and India (7.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (2.9 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 2 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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