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International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 35.3), 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 0890-6955Verify ISSN ↗1879-2170Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$5,610 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 2 / 425 | 99th | Q1 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 4 / 740 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 35.3.
International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture is Q1 in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (rank 2 of 425) and Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 4 of 740), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture 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 35.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 5.005, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 216.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$5,610 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 Machine Tools and Manufacture is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0890-6955 and its online ISSN is 1879-2170.
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 Machine Tools and Manufacture has an h-index of 223 and a 2-year mean of 17.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 35.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 359 Scopus journals in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.
International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture published 56 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (70.2%), United States (5.4%) and Hong Kong SAR China (4.7%). 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. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 per 1,000 papers). 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.
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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