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Minerals is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.9), WoS SCIE. Published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI).
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ISSN 2075-163XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
Cost to publish: About US$2,896 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geology | 76 / 333 | 77th | Q1 |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 76 / 244 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.9.
Minerals is Q1 in Geology (rank 76 of 333) and Q2 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 76 of 244), by CiteScore 2025.
Minerals 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 4.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.581, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 81.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,896 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.
Minerals is published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). Its ISSN is 2075-163X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal per Scopus.
Minerals has an h-index of 93 and a 2-year mean of 2.99 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #51 of 303 Scopus journals in Geology.
Minerals published 1,343 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 1,652. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (52.9%), Türkiye (5.1%) and United States (5.1%). 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. 8 retracted papers are recorded (0.7 per 1,000 papers). 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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