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Key Engineering Materials is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3). Published by Trans Tech Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 1013-9826Verify ISSN ↗1662-9795Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Trans Tech Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 538 / 740 | 27th | Q3 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 313 / 408 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Materials Science (all) | 382 / 475 | 19th | 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 1994–present (also 1991, 1986–1989, 1982), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
Key Engineering Materials is Q3 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 538 of 740), Q4 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 313 of 408) and Q4 in Materials Science (all) (rank 382 of 475), by CiteScore 2025.
Key Engineering Materials 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 1.3, quartile Q3, 27th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.170, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 67.
Key Engineering Materials is published by Trans Tech Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1013-9826 and its online ISSN is 1662-9795.
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.
Key Engineering Materials has an h-index of 70 and a 2-year mean of 1.75 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #321 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Key Engineering Materials published 424 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 1,946. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Hungary (11.2%), Thailand (9.2%) and India (8.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 14 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 3 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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