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npj Materials Degradation is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Nature Publishing Group.
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ISSN 2397-2106Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ceramics and Composites | 16 / 133 | 88th | Q1 |
| Materials Chemistry | 41 / 327 | 87th | Q1 |
| Materials Science (miscellaneous) | 40 / 256 | 84th | Q1 |
| Chemistry (miscellaneous) | 22 / 137 | 84th | Q1 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.8.
npj Materials Degradation is Q1 in Ceramics and Composites (rank 16 of 133), Q1 in Materials Chemistry (rank 41 of 327) and Q1 in Materials Science (miscellaneous) (rank 40 of 256), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
npj Materials Degradation 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 11.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.294, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 57.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,590 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.
npj Materials Degradation is published by Nature Publishing Group. Its ISSN is 2397-2106.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
npj Materials Degradation has an h-index of 67 and a 2-year mean of 7.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #17 of 123 Scopus journals in Ceramics and Composites.
npj Materials Degradation published 179 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (27.8%), United States (18.4%) and United Kingdom (6.5%).
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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