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Lasers in Manufacturing and Materials Processing is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.1), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer US.
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ISSN 2196-7229Verify ISSN ↗2196-7237Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer US
Cost to publish: About US$3,490 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modeling and Simulation | 121 / 397 | 69th | Q2 |
| Nuclear and High Energy Physics | 32 / 97 | 67th | Q2 |
| Instrumentation | 70 / 206 | 66th | Q2 |
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 154 / 425 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.1.
Lasers in Manufacturing and Materials Processing is Q2 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 121 of 397), Q2 in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (rank 32 of 97) and Q2 in Instrumentation (rank 70 of 206), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Lasers in Manufacturing and Materials Processing is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 4.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.527, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 27.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,490 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.
Lasers in Manufacturing and Materials Processing is published by Springer US. Its print ISSN is 2196-7229 and its online ISSN is 2196-7237.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Lasers in Manufacturing and Materials Processing has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 3.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #61 of 323 Scopus journals in Modeling and Simulation.
Lasers in Manufacturing and Materials Processing published 54 papers in 2025. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (19.2%), Germany (18.9%) and China (14.3%).
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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