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Journal of Porous 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 Springer Netherlands.
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ISSN 1380-2224Verify ISSN ↗1573-4854Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Cost to publish: About US$3,790 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 173 / 740 | 76th | Q1 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 116 / 408 | 71st | Q2 |
| Materials Science (all) | 157 / 475 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.9.
Journal of Porous Materials is Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 173 of 740), Q2 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 116 of 408) and Q2 in Materials Science (all) (rank 157 of 475), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Porous 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 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.557, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 73.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,790 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 Porous Materials is published by Springer Netherlands. Its print ISSN is 1380-2224 and its online ISSN is 1573-4854.
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 Porous Materials has an h-index of 76 and a 2-year mean of 3.94 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #132 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Journal of Porous Materials published 167 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 240. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (24%), India (21.8%) and Iran (5.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 10 retracted papers are recorded (2.9 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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