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Nature Materials is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 56.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Nature Publishing Group.
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ISSN 1476-1122Verify ISSN ↗1476-4660Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
Cost to publish: About US$12,690 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 1 / 740 | 99th | Q1 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 1 / 408 | 99th | Q1 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 2 / 446 | 99th | Q1 |
| Materials Science (all) | 3 / 475 | 99th | Q1 |
| Chemistry (all) | 4 / 402 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 56.9.
Nature Materials is Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 1 of 740), Q1 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 1 of 408) and Q1 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 2 of 446), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Nature Materials 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 56.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 13.131, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 608.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$12,690 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.
Nature Materials is published by Nature Publishing Group. Its print ISSN is 1476-1122 and its online ISSN is 1476-4660.
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.
Nature Materials has an h-index of 653 and a 2-year mean of 23.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 56.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Nature Materials published 391 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 88 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (24.4%), China (24.1%) and Switzerland (5.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 9 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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