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International Journal of Corrosion and Scale Inhibition is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Russian Association of Corrosion Engineers.
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ISSN 2305-6894Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Russian Association of Corrosion Engineers
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 66 / 182 | 64th | Q2 |
| Materials Chemistry | 193 / 327 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.4.
International Journal of Corrosion and Scale Inhibition is Q2 in Metals and Alloys (rank 66 of 182) and Q3 in Materials Chemistry (rank 193 of 327), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Corrosion and Scale Inhibition 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.279, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 38.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$250 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.
International Journal of Corrosion and Scale Inhibition is published by Russian Association of Corrosion Engineers. Its ISSN is 2305-6894.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
International Journal of Corrosion and Scale Inhibition has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 0.63 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #109 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
International Journal of Corrosion and Scale Inhibition published 130 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 137. 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 28 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Russia (60.7%), Indonesia (11.3%) and Iraq (7.1%). 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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