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Keikinzoku/Journal of Japan Institute of Light Metals is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.9). Published by Keikinzoku Gakkai/Japan Institute of Light Metals.
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ISSN 0451-5994Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Keikinzoku Gakkai/Japan Institute of Light Metals
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 149 / 182 | 18th | Q4 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 612 / 740 | 17th | Q4 |
| Materials Chemistry | 285 / 327 | 12th | Q4 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 359 / 408 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1952–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.9.
Keikinzoku/Journal of Japan Institute of Light Metals is Q4 in Metals and Alloys (rank 149 of 182), Q4 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 612 of 740) and Q4 in Materials Chemistry (rank 285 of 327), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Keikinzoku/Journal of Japan Institute of Light Metals is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q4, 18th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.255, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 27.
Keikinzoku/Journal of Japan Institute of Light Metals is published by Keikinzoku Gakkai/Japan Institute of Light Metals. Its ISSN is 0451-5994.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Keikinzoku/Journal of Japan Institute of Light Metals has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 0.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #118 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
Keikinzoku/Journal of Japan Institute of Light Metals published 56 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 91. 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 96 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Japan (96.9%), United States (1.6%) and Switzerland (0.5%). 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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