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Metal Science and Heat Treatment is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer New York.
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ISSN 0026-0673Verify ISSN ↗1573-8973Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer New York
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 143 / 182 | 21st | Q4 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 352 / 408 | 13th | Q4 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 405 / 446 | 9th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1959–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.9.
Metal Science and Heat Treatment is Q4 in Metals and Alloys (rank 143 of 182), Q4 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 352 of 408) and Q4 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 405 of 446), by CiteScore 2025.
Metal Science and Heat Treatment 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 21st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.187, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 35.
Metal Science and Heat Treatment is published by Springer New York. Its print ISSN is 0026-0673 and its online ISSN is 1573-8973.
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.
Metal Science and Heat Treatment has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 0.89 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #99 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
Metal Science and Heat Treatment published 122 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 141. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Russia (64.8%), China (13.8%) and India (8.2%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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