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Materials Research Express is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by IOP Publishing Ltd..
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ISSN 2053-1591Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: IOP Publishing Ltd.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 56 / 182 | 69th | Q2 |
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 63 / 141 | 55th | Q2 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 152 / 318 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Polymers and Plastics | 86 / 168 | 49th | Q3 |
| Biomaterials | 85 / 146 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.3.
Materials Research Express is Q2 in Metals and Alloys (rank 56 of 182), Q2 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 63 of 141) and Q2 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 152 of 318), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Materials Research Express 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 4.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.442, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 86.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,000 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 Research Express is published by IOP Publishing Ltd. Its ISSN is 2053-1591.
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.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Materials Research Express has an h-index of 93 and a 2-year mean of 2.91 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #53 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
Materials Research Express published 551 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 4,675. 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 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (26.1%), Türkiye (19.9%) and India (10.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 50 retracted papers are recorded (3.2 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 6 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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