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International Journal of Fatigue is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 13.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0142-1123Verify ISSN ↗1879-3452Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,940 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modeling and Simulation | 9 / 397 | 97th | Q1 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 36 / 740 | 95th | Q1 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 24 / 408 | 94th | Q1 |
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 33 / 425 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Materials Science (all) | 49 / 475 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1979–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 13.2.
International Journal of Fatigue is Q1 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 9 of 397), Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 36 of 740) and Q1 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 24 of 408), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Fatigue 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 13.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.666, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 173.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,940 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 Fatigue is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0142-1123 and its online ISSN is 1879-3452.
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.
International Journal of Fatigue has an h-index of 186 and a 2-year mean of 7.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 13.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #11 of 323 Scopus journals in Modeling and Simulation.
International Journal of Fatigue published 581 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 654. 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 88 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (58.2%), Germany (5.2%) and United States (4.3%). 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. 6 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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