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Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer International Publishing AG.
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ISSN 2524-3462Verify ISSN ↗2524-3470Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
Cost to publish: About US$3,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 63 / 182 | 65th | Q2 |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 98 / 244 | 59th | Q2 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 312 / 740 | 57th | Q2 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 165 / 390 | 57th | Q2 |
| Chemistry (all) | 196 / 402 | 51st | Q2 |
| Materials Chemistry | 185 / 327 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.7.
Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration is Q2 in Metals and Alloys (rank 63 of 182), Q2 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 98 of 244) and Q2 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 312 of 740), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.474, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 46.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,190 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.
Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration is published by Springer International Publishing AG. Its print ISSN is 2524-3462 and its online ISSN is 2524-3470.
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.
Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration has an h-index of 46 and a 2-year mean of 1.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #73 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration published 274 papers in 2025. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (35.7%), India (15.6%) and United States (12.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (1 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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