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Materials is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7), WoS SCIE. Published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI).
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ISSN 1996-1944Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
Cost to publish: About US$3,137 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condensed Matter Physics | 86 / 446 | 80th | Q1 |
| Materials Science (all) | 128 / 475 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.
Materials is Q1 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 86 of 446) and Q2 in Materials Science (all) (rank 128 of 475), by CiteScore 2025.
Materials 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 7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.617, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 216.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,137 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.
Materials is published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). Its ISSN is 1996-1944.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Materials has an h-index of 249 and a 2-year mean of 4.63 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #72 of 425 Scopus journals in Condensed Matter Physics.
Materials published 5,726 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 9,205. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (60.5%), Poland (11.5%) and Mexico (3%). 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. 44 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 6 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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