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Metals Advances is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.6), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 2097-7514Verify ISSN ↗3117-7220Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 35 / 182 | 81st | Q1 |
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 100 / 425 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2026, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.6.
Metals Advances is Q1 in Metals and Alloys (rank 35 of 182) and Q1 in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (rank 100 of 425), by CiteScore 2025.
Metals 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 6.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject.
Metals Advances is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its print ISSN is 2097-7514 and its online ISSN is 3117-7220.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Metals Advances has an h-index of 6 and a 2-year mean of 2.38 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #59 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
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 95 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (91.9%), Singapore (1.9%) and Germany (1.1%). 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.
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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