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Kovove Materialy is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5), WoS SCIE. Published by Institute of Materials and Machine Mechanics, Slovak Academy of Sciences.
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ISSN 0023-432XVerify ISSN ↗1338-4252Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institute of Materials and Machine Mechanics, Slovak Academy of Sciences
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 115 / 182 | 37th | Q3 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 506 / 740 | 31st | Q3 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 293 / 408 | 28th | Q3 |
| Materials Chemistry | 253 / 327 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1968–1993), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
Kovove Materialy is Q3 in Metals and Alloys (rank 115 of 182), Q3 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 506 of 740) and Q3 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 293 of 408), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Kovove Materialy 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 37th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.207, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 29.
Kovove Materialy is published by Institute of Materials and Machine Mechanics, Slovak Academy of Sciences. Its print ISSN is 0023-432X and its online ISSN is 1338-4252.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Kovove Materialy has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #114 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
Kovove Materialy published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 147. 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 65 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (36.2%), Türkiye (16.2%) and India (6.2%).
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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