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Progress in Crystal Growth and Characterization of Materials is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0960-8974Verify ISSN ↗1878-4208Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condensed Matter Physics | 126 / 446 | 71st | Q2 |
| Materials Science (all) | 169 / 475 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.7.
Progress in Crystal Growth and Characterization of Materials is Q2 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 126 of 446) and Q2 in Materials Science (all) (rank 169 of 475), by CiteScore 2025.
Progress in Crystal Growth and Characterization of 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 5.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.712, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 61.
Progress in Crystal Growth and Characterization of Materials is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0960-8974 and its online ISSN is 1878-4208.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Progress in Crystal Growth and Characterization of Materials has an h-index of 68 and a 2-year mean of 4.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #87 of 425 Scopus journals in Condensed Matter Physics.
Progress in Crystal Growth and Characterization of Materials published 12 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 14. 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 41 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (14.2%), India (11.8%) and Mexico (11%).
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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