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Scripta Materialia is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Acta Materialia Inc.
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ISSN 1359-6462Verify ISSN ↗1872-8456Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Acta Materialia Inc
Cost to publish: About US$3,220 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condensed Matter Physics | 29 / 446 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 48 / 740 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 35 / 408 | 91st | Q1 |
| Metals and Alloys | 16 / 182 | 91st | Q1 |
| Materials Science (all) | 62 / 475 | 87th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.6.
Scripta Materialia is Q1 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 29 of 446), Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 48 of 740) and Q1 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 35 of 408), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Scripta Materialia 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 11.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.505, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 253.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,220 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.
Scripta Materialia is published by Acta Materialia Inc. Its print ISSN is 1359-6462 and its online ISSN is 1872-8456.
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.
Scripta Materialia has an h-index of 261 and a 2-year mean of 5.94 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #47 of 425 Scopus journals in Condensed Matter Physics.
Scripta Materialia published 514 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 747. 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 89 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (50.6%), Japan (7.9%) and India (5.8%). 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. 5 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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