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Mechanism and Machine Theory is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0094-114XVerify ISSN ↗1873-3999Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,060 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 46 / 740 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 31 / 408 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 102 / 1022 | 90th | Q1 |
| Bioengineering | 25 / 168 | 85th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1972–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.
Mechanism and Machine Theory is Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 46 of 740), Q1 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 31 of 408) and Q1 in Computer Science Applications (rank 102 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Mechanism and Machine Theory 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 12, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.574, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 142.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,060 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.
Mechanism and Machine Theory is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0094-114X and its online ISSN is 1873-3999.
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.
Mechanism and Machine Theory has an h-index of 154 and a 2-year mean of 4.9 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #89 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Mechanism and Machine Theory published 326 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 406. 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 89 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (45.5%), Italy (8.1%) and France (5.1%).
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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