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Rare Metals is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 15.3), WoS SCIE. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 1001-0521Verify ISSN ↗1867-7185Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$3,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condensed Matter Physics | 14 / 446 | 96th | Q1 |
| Metals and Alloys | 7 / 182 | 96th | Q1 |
| Physical and Theoretical Chemistry | 14 / 194 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Materials Chemistry | 24 / 327 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present (also 1982–1987), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 15.3.
Rare Metals is Q1 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 14 of 446), Q1 in Metals and Alloys (rank 7 of 182) and Q1 in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (rank 14 of 194), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Rare Metals 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 15.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.887, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 83.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,190 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.
Rare Metals is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 1001-0521 and its online ISSN is 1867-7185.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Rare Metals has an h-index of 96 and a 2-year mean of 11.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 15.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #9 of 425 Scopus journals in Condensed Matter Physics.
Rare Metals published 730 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (79.5%), Singapore (2.4%) and United Kingdom (2.2%). 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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