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SpringerBriefs in Materials is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6). Published by Springer.
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ISSN 2192-1091Verify ISSN ↗2192-1105Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 161 / 182 | 11th | Q4 |
| Engineering (miscellaneous) | 266 / 300 | 11th | Q4 |
| Chemistry (miscellaneous) | 126 / 137 | 8th | Q4 |
| Biomaterials | 136 / 146 | 7th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
SpringerBriefs in Materials is Q4 in Metals and Alloys (rank 161 of 182), Q4 in Engineering (miscellaneous) (rank 266 of 300) and Q4 in Chemistry (miscellaneous) (rank 126 of 137), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
SpringerBriefs in Materials is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4, 11th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
SpringerBriefs in Materials is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 2192-1091 and its online ISSN is 2192-1105.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
SpringerBriefs in Materials has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 0.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #116 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
SpringerBriefs in Materials published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 80. 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.
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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