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Functional Composites and Structures is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.6), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by IOP Publishing Ltd..
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ISSN 2631-6331Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: IOP Publishing Ltd.
Cost to publish: About US$3,325 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanics of Materials | 129 / 408 | 68th | Q2 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 105 / 318 | 67th | Q2 |
| Materials Science (miscellaneous) | 91 / 256 | 64th | Q2 |
| Ceramics and Composites | 51 / 133 | 62nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.6.
Functional Composites and Structures is Q2 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 129 of 408), Q2 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 105 of 318) and Q2 in Materials Science (miscellaneous) (rank 91 of 256), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Functional Composites and Structures 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 5.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.560, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 26.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,325 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.
Functional Composites and Structures is published by IOP Publishing Ltd. Its ISSN is 2631-6331.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Functional Composites and Structures has an h-index of 28 and a 2-year mean of 3.49 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #109 of 376 Scopus journals in Mechanics of Materials.
Functional Composites and Structures published 45 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 52. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (32.3%), India (18.7%) and Iran (8.8%).
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 1 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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