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Materialpruefung/Materials Testing is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.7), WoS SCIE. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 0025-5300Verify ISSN ↗2195-8572Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,712 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 187 / 740 | 74th | Q2 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 127 / 408 | 68th | Q2 |
| Materials Science (all) | 171 / 475 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present (also 1968–1989), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.7.
Materialpruefung/Materials Testing is Q2 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 187 of 740), Q2 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 127 of 408) and Q2 in Materials Science (all) (rank 171 of 475), by CiteScore 2025.
Materialpruefung/Materials Testing 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 5.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.636, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 49.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,712 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.
Materialpruefung/Materials Testing is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0025-5300 and its online ISSN is 2195-8572.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Materialpruefung/Materials Testing has an h-index of 52 and a 2-year mean of 3.57 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #155 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Materialpruefung/Materials Testing published 174 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 337. 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 Türkiye (49.5%), China (14.8%) and India (7.5%).
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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