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Materials Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0167-577XVerify ISSN ↗1873-4979Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,870 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 189 / 740 | 74th | Q2 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 132 / 446 | 70th | Q2 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 128 / 408 | 68th | Q2 |
| Materials Science (all) | 175 / 475 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1982–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.6.
Materials Letters is Q2 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 189 of 740), Q2 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 132 of 446) and Q2 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 128 of 408), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Materials Letters 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 5.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.512, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 189.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,870 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 Letters is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0167-577X and its online ISSN is 1873-4979.
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 Letters has an h-index of 193 and a 2-year mean of 2.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #214 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Materials Letters published 1,886 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 2,428. 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 78 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (64.5%), Russia (7.1%) and Japan (5.6%). 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. 38 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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