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Journal of Nuclear Materials is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.9), 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 0022-3115Verify ISSN ↗1873-4820Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,640 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nuclear and High Energy Physics | 19 / 97 | 80th | Q1 |
| Nuclear Energy and Engineering | 17 / 85 | 80th | Q1 |
| Materials Science (all) | 156 / 475 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1959–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.9.
Journal of Nuclear Materials is Q1 in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (rank 19 of 97), Q1 in Nuclear Energy and Engineering (rank 17 of 85) and Q2 in Materials Science (all) (rank 156 of 475), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Nuclear 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 5.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.879, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 182.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,640 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.
Journal of Nuclear Materials is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0022-3115 and its online ISSN is 1873-4820.
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.
Journal of Nuclear Materials has an h-index of 218 and a 2-year mean of 3.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #19 of 90 Scopus journals in Nuclear and High Energy Physics.
Journal of Nuclear Materials published 699 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 789. 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 86 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (48.5%), United States (14.8%) and South Korea (6.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.1 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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