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Physicochemical Problems of Mineral Processing is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.4), WoS SCIE. Published by Oficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wroclawskiej.
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ISSN 1643-1049Verify ISSN ↗2084-4735Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wroclawskiej
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economic Geology | 23 / 52 | 56th | Q2 |
| Geology | 167 / 333 | 50th | Q2 |
| Materials Chemistry | 214 / 327 | 34th | Q3 |
| Process Chemistry and Technology | 58 / 84 | 31st | Q3 |
| Physical and Theoretical Chemistry | 141 / 194 | 27th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.4.
Physicochemical Problems of Mineral Processing is Q2 in Economic Geology (rank 23 of 52), Q2 in Geology (rank 167 of 333) and Q3 in Materials Chemistry (rank 214 of 327), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Physicochemical Problems of Mineral Processing 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 2.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.273, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 35.
Physicochemical Problems of Mineral Processing is published by Oficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wroclawskiej. Its print ISSN is 1643-1049 and its online ISSN is 2084-4735.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Physicochemical Problems of Mineral Processing has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 0.99 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #20 of 49 Scopus journals in Economic Geology.
Physicochemical Problems of Mineral Processing published 96 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 117. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (39.8%), Türkiye (31.3%) and Poland (5.1%).
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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