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Materials Science Forum is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.2). Published by Trans Tech Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 0255-5476Verify ISSN ↗1662-9752Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Trans Tech Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 561 / 740 | 24th | Q4 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 327 / 408 | 19th | Q4 |
| Materials Science (all) | 392 / 475 | 17th | Q4 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 385 / 446 | 13th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present (also 1984–1986), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.2.
Materials Science Forum is Q4 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 561 of 740), Q4 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 327 of 408) and Q4 in Materials Science (all) (rank 392 of 475), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Materials Science Forum 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 1.2, quartile Q4, 24th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.155, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 93.
Materials Science Forum is published by Trans Tech Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0255-5476 and its online ISSN is 1662-9752.
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 Science Forum has an h-index of 102 and a 2-year mean of 2.24 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #259 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Materials Science Forum published 425 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 2,110. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Indonesia (22.2%), Japan (10.6%) and India (10.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 8 retracted papers are recorded (0.1 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.
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