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International Journal of Plasticity is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 21.9), 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 0749-6419Verify ISSN ↗1879-2154Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,740 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 13 / 740 | 98th | Q1 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 13 / 408 | 96th | Q1 |
| Materials Science (all) | 20 / 475 | 95th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1985–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 21.9.
International Journal of Plasticity is Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 13 of 740), Q1 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 13 of 408) and Q1 in Materials Science (all) (rank 20 of 475), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Plasticity 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 21.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 4.210, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 188.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,740 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 Plasticity is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0749-6419 and its online ISSN is 1879-2154.
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 Plasticity has an h-index of 208 and a 2-year mean of 17.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 21.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #8 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
International Journal of Plasticity published 290 papers in 2025. 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 91 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (56.3%), United States (9.2%) and South Korea (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. 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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