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Practical Metallography is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.1), WoS SCIE. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 0032-678XVerify ISSN ↗2195-8599Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,712 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 136 / 182 | 25th | Q3 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 260 / 318 | 18th | Q4 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 334 / 408 | 18th | Q4 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 390 / 446 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1969–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.1.
Practical Metallography is Q3 in Metals and Alloys (rank 136 of 182), Q4 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 260 of 318) and Q4 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 334 of 408), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Practical Metallography 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 25th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.216, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 20.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,712 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.
Practical Metallography is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0032-678X and its online ISSN is 2195-8599.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Practical Metallography has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 0.29 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #129 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
Practical Metallography published 95 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 113. 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 55 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Germany (60%), China (12.7%) and India (10%). 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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