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Materials China is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4). Published by Materials China.
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ISSN 1674-3962Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Materials China
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 165 / 282 | 41st | Q3 |
| Nuclear Energy and Engineering | 57 / 85 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Materials Science (all) | 376 / 475 | 20th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
Materials China is Q3 in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (rank 165 of 282), Q3 in Nuclear Energy and Engineering (rank 57 of 85) and Q4 in Materials Science (all) (rank 376 of 475), by CiteScore 2025.
Materials China is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3, 41st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.191, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 20.
Materials China is published by Materials China. Its ISSN is 1674-3962.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Materials China has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #182 of 199 Scopus journals in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.
Materials China published 1 papers in 2017; its busiest recent year was 2011 with 89. 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.
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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