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Sustainable Materials and Technologies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2214-9929Verify ISSN ↗2214-9937Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$4,150 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 36 / 425 | 91st | Q1 |
| Materials Science (all) | 54 / 475 | 88th | Q1 |
| Waste Management and Disposal | 23 / 151 | 85th | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 57 / 345 | 83rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.4.
Sustainable Materials and Technologies is Q1 in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (rank 36 of 425), Q1 in Materials Science (all) (rank 54 of 475) and Q1 in Waste Management and Disposal (rank 23 of 151), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Sustainable Materials and Technologies 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 12.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.484, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 86.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,150 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.
Sustainable Materials and Technologies is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 2214-9929 and its online ISSN is 2214-9937.
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.
Sustainable Materials and Technologies has an h-index of 87 and a 2-year mean of 5.97 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #42 of 359 Scopus journals in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.
Sustainable Materials and Technologies published 612 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 94 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (59.9%), India (6.4%) and Portugal (3.2%). 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 1 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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