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MRS Bulletin is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Nature.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0883-7694Verify ISSN ↗1938-1425Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: About US$3,490 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condensed Matter Physics | 56 / 446 | 87th | Q1 |
| Physical and Theoretical Chemistry | 35 / 194 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Materials Science (all) | 102 / 475 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1982–present (also 1980), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.7.
MRS Bulletin is Q1 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 56 of 446), Q1 in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (rank 35 of 194) and Q1 in Materials Science (all) (rank 102 of 475), by CiteScore 2025.
MRS Bulletin 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 8.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.266, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 185.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,490 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 Bulletin is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 0883-7694 and its online ISSN is 1938-1425.
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.
MRS Bulletin has an h-index of 196 and a 2-year mean of 3.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #136 of 425 Scopus journals in Condensed Matter Physics.
MRS Bulletin published 198 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 339. 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 70 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (44.5%), China (6.9%) and Germany (4.5%).
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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