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Letters on Materials is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.7), WoS ESCI. Published by Institute for Metals Superplasticity Problems of Russian Academy of Sciences.
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ISSN 2218-5046Verify ISSN ↗2410-3535Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institute for Metals Superplasticity Problems of Russian Academy of Sciences
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Materials Science (all) | 357 / 475 | 24th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.7.
Letters on Materials is Q4 in Materials Science (all) (rank 357 of 475), by CiteScore 2025.
Letters on Materials 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 24th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.250, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 18.
Letters on Materials is published by Institute for Metals Superplasticity Problems of Russian Academy of Sciences. Its print ISSN is 2218-5046 and its online ISSN is 2410-3535.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Letters on Materials has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #417 of 438 Scopus journals in Materials Science (all).
Letters on Materials published 34 papers in 2023; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 109. 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 99 research articles (2022–2023), authors are most often from Russia (92.9%), Belarus (1.5%) and India (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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.8 per 1,000 papers). 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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