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Foundations of Engineering Mechanics is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.4). Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 1612-1384Verify ISSN ↗1860-6237Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 673 / 740 | 9th | Q4 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 388 / 408 | 5th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–2024 (also 2014–2018, 2006–2011), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.4.
Foundations of Engineering Mechanics is Q4 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 673 of 740) and Q4 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 388 of 408), by CiteScore 2025.
Foundations of Engineering Mechanics is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4, 9th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Foundations of Engineering Mechanics is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 1612-1384 and its online ISSN is 1860-6237.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Foundations of Engineering Mechanics has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0.82 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #440 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Foundations of Engineering Mechanics published 17 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 49. 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.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. 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.
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