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Soft Materials is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemistry (all) | 216 / 402 | 46th | Q3 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 255 / 446 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Materials Science (all) | 277 / 475 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.3.
Soft Materials is Q3 in Chemistry (all) (rank 216 of 402), Q3 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 255 of 446) and Q3 in Materials Science (all) (rank 277 of 475), by CiteScore 2025.
Soft 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 46th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.246, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 33.
Soft Materials is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1539-445X and its online ISSN is 1539-4468.
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.
Soft Materials has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 1.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #238 of 382 Scopus journals in Chemistry (all).
Soft Materials published 10 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 60. 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 98 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (29.4%), India (17.7%) and Iran (6.6%).
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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