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Nippon Kinzoku Gakkaishi/Journal of the Japan Institute of Metals is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6), WoS SCIE. Published by Japan Institute of Metals (JIM).
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ISSN 0021-4876Verify ISSN ↗1880-6880Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Japan Institute of Metals (JIM)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 160 / 182 | 12th | Q4 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 374 / 408 | 8th | Q4 |
| Materials Chemistry | 300 / 327 | 8th | Q4 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 422 / 446 | 5th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present (also 1969–1992, 1947–1949, 1937–1944), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
Nippon Kinzoku Gakkaishi/Journal of the Japan Institute of Metals is Q4 in Metals and Alloys (rank 160 of 182), Q4 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 374 of 408) and Q4 in Materials Chemistry (rank 300 of 327), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Nippon Kinzoku Gakkaishi/Journal of the Japan Institute of Metals 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 12th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.181, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 34.
Nippon Kinzoku Gakkaishi/Journal of the Japan Institute of Metals is published by Japan Institute of Metals (JIM). Its print ISSN is 0021-4876 and its online ISSN is 1880-6880.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Nippon Kinzoku Gakkaishi/Journal of the Japan Institute of Metals has an h-index of 50 and a 2-year mean of 0.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #124 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
Nippon Kinzoku Gakkaishi/Journal of the Japan Institute of Metals published 39 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 77. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Japan (96.5%), United States (1.1%) and France (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. 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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