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Open Ceramics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2666-5395Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 121 / 318 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Ceramics and Composites | 57 / 133 | 57th | Q2 |
| Materials Chemistry | 141 / 327 | 57th | Q2 |
| Biomaterials | 77 / 146 | 47th | Q3 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.1.
Open Ceramics is Q2 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 121 of 318), Q2 in Ceramics and Composites (rank 57 of 133) and Q2 in Materials Chemistry (rank 141 of 327), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Open Ceramics is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 5.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.561, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 30.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,000 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.
Open Ceramics is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2666-5395.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Open Ceramics has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 3.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #102 of 269 Scopus journals in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.
Open Ceramics published 175 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 203. 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 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Germany (12.4%), China (11.9%) and France (9.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 5 retracted papers are recorded (4.8 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.
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