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Materials Advances is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Royal Society of Chemistry.
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ISSN 2633-5409Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Materials Science (all) | 84 / 475 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Chemistry (miscellaneous) | 29 / 137 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.5.
Materials Advances is Q1 in Materials Science (all) (rank 84 of 475) and Q1 in Chemistry (miscellaneous) (rank 29 of 137), by CiteScore 2025.
Materials Advances 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 9.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.981, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 78.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,962 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 Advances is published by Royal Society of Chemistry. Its ISSN is 2633-5409.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Materials Advances has an h-index of 100 and a 2-year mean of 6.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #67 of 438 Scopus journals in Materials Science (all).
Materials Advances published 839 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 849. 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (24%), Bangladesh (8.2%) and United States (7.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 8 retracted papers are recorded (1.6 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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