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Materials Characterization is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Inc..
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ISSN 1044-5803Verify ISSN ↗1873-4189Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,320 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 84 / 740 | 88th | Q1 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 53 / 446 | 88th | Q1 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 55 / 408 | 86th | Q1 |
| Materials Science (all) | 92 / 475 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present (also 1970), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.1.
Materials Characterization is Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 84 of 740), Q1 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 53 of 446) and Q1 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 55 of 408), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Materials Characterization 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 9.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.291, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 143.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,320 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 Characterization is published by Elsevier Inc. Its print ISSN is 1044-5803 and its online ISSN is 1873-4189.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Materials Characterization has an h-index of 158 and a 2-year mean of 5.57 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #62 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Materials Characterization published 1,156 papers in 2025. 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 80 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (77.9%), United States (6%) and Japan (3.2%). 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. 10 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 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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