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Materials Today Advances is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 14.8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 2590-0498Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 24 / 740 | 96th | Q1 |
| Materials Science (all) | 38 / 475 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 14.8.
Materials Today Advances is Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 24 of 740) and Q1 in Materials Science (all) (rank 38 of 475), by CiteScore 2025.
Materials Today Advances 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 14.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.434, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 62.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,790 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 Today Advances is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its ISSN is 2590-0498.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Materials Today Advances has an h-index of 68 and a 2-year mean of 3.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 14.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #175 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Materials Today Advances published 124 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 131. 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 85 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (39.7%), India (6.8%) and South Korea (6.3%).
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 2 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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