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Smart Materials in Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 19.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 2590-1834Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biomedical Engineering | 15 / 342 | 95th | Q1 |
| Biomaterials | 10 / 146 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Bioengineering | 13 / 168 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 19.1.
Smart Materials in Medicine is Q1 in Biomedical Engineering (rank 15 of 342), Q1 in Biomaterials (rank 10 of 146) and Q1 in Bioengineering (rank 13 of 168), by CiteScore 2025.
Smart Materials in Medicine is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 19.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.290, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 38.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$700 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.
Smart Materials in Medicine is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its ISSN is 2590-1834.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Smart Materials in Medicine has an h-index of 39 and a 2-year mean of 6.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 19.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #56 of 322 Scopus journals in Biomedical Engineering.
Smart Materials in Medicine published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 52. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (69.4%), United States (7.3%) and Hong Kong SAR China (2.6%). 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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (4.3 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.
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