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Foundations of Materials Science and Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.8). Published by Trans Tech Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 2297-8143Verify ISSN ↗2297-816XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Trans Tech Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 616 / 740 | 16th | Q4 |
| Engineering (miscellaneous) | 251 / 300 | 16th | Q4 |
| Materials Science (miscellaneous) | 220 / 256 | 14th | Q4 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 360 / 408 | 11th | 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 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.8.
Foundations of Materials Science and Engineering is Q4 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 616 of 740), Q4 in Engineering (miscellaneous) (rank 251 of 300) and Q4 in Materials Science (miscellaneous) (rank 220 of 256), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Foundations of Materials Science and Engineering 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 0.8, quartile Q4, 16th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Foundations of Materials Science and Engineering is published by Trans Tech Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2297-8143 and its online ISSN is 2297-816X.
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 Materials Science and Engineering has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #582 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Foundations of Materials Science and Engineering published 1 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 3. 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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