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Main Group Metal Chemistry is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 0792-1241Verify ISSN ↗2191-0219Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 74 / 182 | 59th | Q2 |
| Chemistry (all) | 222 / 402 | 44th | Q3 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 262 / 446 | 41st | Q3 |
| Materials Chemistry | 199 / 327 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present (also 1988), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
Main Group Metal Chemistry is Q2 in Metals and Alloys (rank 74 of 182), Q3 in Chemistry (all) (rank 222 of 402) and Q3 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 262 of 446), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Main Group Metal Chemistry 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 59th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.209, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 29.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,187 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.
Main Group Metal Chemistry is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0792-1241 and its online ISSN is 2191-0219.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Main Group Metal Chemistry has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 1.81 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #71 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
Main Group Metal Chemistry published 12 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 32. 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 (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (28.9%), Pakistan (23.1%) and Türkiye (6.6%).
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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