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Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
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ISSN 2225-6253Verify ISSN ↗2411-9717Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 99 / 182 | 45th | Q3 |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 152 / 244 | 37th | Q3 |
| Materials Chemistry | 228 / 327 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present (also 1988), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.
Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy is Q3 in Metals and Alloys (rank 99 of 182), Q3 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 152 of 244) and Q3 in Materials Chemistry (rank 228 of 327), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 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 2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 45th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.338, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 51.
Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy is published by South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Its print ISSN is 2225-6253 and its online ISSN is 2411-9717.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy has an h-index of 52 and a 2-year mean of 1.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #82 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy published 65 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 155. 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 79 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (60.2%), Canada (8%) and Türkiye (5.1%). 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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