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NPG Asia Materials is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 16.1), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Nature Publishing Group.
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ISSN 1884-4049Verify ISSN ↗1884-4057Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modeling and Simulation | 6 / 397 | 98th | Q1 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 12 / 446 | 97th | Q1 |
| Materials Science (all) | 34 / 475 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 16.1.
NPG Asia Materials is Q1 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 6 of 397), Q1 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 12 of 446) and Q1 in Materials Science (all) (rank 34 of 475), by CiteScore 2025.
NPG Asia 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 16.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.759, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 129.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,490 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.
NPG Asia Materials is published by Nature Publishing Group. Its print ISSN is 1884-4049 and its online ISSN is 1884-4057.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
NPG Asia Materials has an h-index of 143 and a 2-year mean of 9.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 16.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 323 Scopus journals in Modeling and Simulation.
NPG Asia Materials published 49 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 118. 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 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (28.3%), South Korea (24.8%) and Japan (19.9%).
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.
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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