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Materials Performance and Characterization is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.8), WoS ESCI. Published by ASTM International.
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ISSN 2165-3992Verify ISSN ↗2379-1365Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: ASTM International
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 104 / 182 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 279 / 408 | 31st | Q3 |
| Ceramics and Composites | 95 / 133 | 28th | Q3 |
| Polymers and Plastics | 123 / 168 | 27th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.8.
Materials Performance and Characterization is Q3 in Metals and Alloys (rank 104 of 182), Q3 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 279 of 408) and Q3 in Ceramics and Composites (rank 95 of 133), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Materials Performance and Characterization 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 43rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.228, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 23.
Materials Performance and Characterization is published by ASTM International. Its print ISSN is 2165-3992 and its online ISSN is 2379-1365.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Materials Performance and Characterization has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 0.9 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #98 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
Materials Performance and Characterization published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 135. 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 95 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from India (24.7%), United States (20.5%) and Brazil (7.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
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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