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International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.1), 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 0263-4368Verify ISSN ↗2213-3917Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,310 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 107 / 740 | 85th | Q1 |
| Metals and Alloys | 28 / 182 | 84th | Q1 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 75 / 408 | 81st | Q1 |
| Ceramics and Composites | 28 / 133 | 79th | Q1 |
| Materials Chemistry | 77 / 327 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1982–1993 (also 1995–present), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.1.
International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials is Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 107 of 740), Q1 in Metals and Alloys (rank 28 of 182) and Q1 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 75 of 408), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials 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 8.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.023, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 118.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,310 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 Refractory Metals and Hard Materials is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0263-4368 and its online ISSN is 2213-3917.
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 Refractory Metals and Hard Materials has an h-index of 121 and a 2-year mean of 4.3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #115 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials published 546 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 92 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (80.8%), United States (4.3%) and Japan (2.2%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 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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