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Jinshu Xuebao/Acta Metallurgica Sinica is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.5), WoS SCIE. Published by Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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ISSN 0412-1961Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 50 / 182 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 253 / 740 | 65th | Q2 |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 84 / 244 | 65th | Q2 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 163 / 408 | 60th | Q2 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1978–1991), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.5.
Jinshu Xuebao/Acta Metallurgica Sinica is Q2 in Metals and Alloys (rank 50 of 182), Q2 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 253 of 740) and Q2 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 84 of 244), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Jinshu Xuebao/Acta Metallurgica Sinica 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.582, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 54.
Jinshu Xuebao/Acta Metallurgica Sinica is published by Chinese Academy of Sciences. Its ISSN is 0412-1961.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Jinshu Xuebao/Acta Metallurgica Sinica has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #143 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
Jinshu Xuebao/Acta Metallurgica Sinica published 96 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2013 with 372. 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.
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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