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Fracture and Structural Integrity is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Gruppo Italiano Frattura.
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ISSN 1971-8993Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Gruppo Italiano Frattura
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 306 / 740 | 58th | Q2 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 181 / 434 | 58th | Q2 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 190 / 408 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.8.
Fracture and Structural Integrity is Q2 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 306 of 740), Q2 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 181 of 434) and Q2 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 190 of 408), by CiteScore 2025.
Fracture and Structural Integrity 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 58th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.437, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 34.
Fracture and Structural Integrity is published by Gruppo Italiano Frattura. Its ISSN is 1971-8993.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Fracture and Structural Integrity has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 1.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #309 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Fracture and Structural Integrity published 106 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 242. 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 Russia (25.5%), India (17.9%) and Italy (15.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
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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