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Hydrometallurgy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0304-386XVerify ISSN ↗1879-1158Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$4,350 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 21 / 182 | 88th | Q1 |
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 49 / 425 | 88th | Q1 |
| Materials Chemistry | 48 / 327 | 85th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1975–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.6.
Hydrometallurgy is Q1 in Metals and Alloys (rank 21 of 182), Q1 in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (rank 49 of 425) and Q1 in Materials Chemistry (rank 48 of 327), by CiteScore 2025.
Hydrometallurgy is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 10.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.032, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 155.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,350 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.
Hydrometallurgy is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0304-386X and its online ISSN is 1879-1158.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Hydrometallurgy has an h-index of 170 and a 2-year mean of 4.81 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #28 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
Hydrometallurgy published 144 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 283. 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 90 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (58.9%), India (3.9%) and Finland (3.3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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