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MRS Advances is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.7), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2059-8521Verify ISSN ↗2731-5894Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: About US$3,390 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 489 / 740 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 284 / 408 | 30th | Q3 |
| Materials Science (all) | 362 / 475 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 345 / 446 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present (also 2012), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.7.
MRS Advances is Q3 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 489 of 740), Q3 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 284 of 408) and Q4 in Materials Science (all) (rank 362 of 475), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
MRS Advances is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 33rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.272, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 67.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,390 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.
MRS Advances is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 2059-8521 and its online ISSN is 2731-5894.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
MRS Advances has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 1.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #398 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
MRS Advances published 421 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 625. 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 Mexico (32%), United States (16.7%) and India (11.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 6 retracted papers are recorded (1.3 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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