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Mechanisms and Machine Science is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.7). Published by Springer Netherlands.
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ISSN 2211-0984Verify ISSN ↗2211-0992Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 628 / 740 | 15th | Q4 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 367 / 408 | 10th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.7.
Mechanisms and Machine Science is Q4 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 628 of 740) and Q4 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 367 of 408), by CiteScore 2025.
Mechanisms and Machine Science 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 0.7, quartile Q4, 15th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.163, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 32.
Mechanisms and Machine Science is published by Springer Netherlands. Its print ISSN is 2211-0984 and its online ISSN is 2211-0992.
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.
Mechanisms and Machine Science has an h-index of 41 and a 2-year mean of 0.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #530 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Mechanisms and Machine Science published 1,034 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 1,496. 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.
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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