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Synthetic Metals is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.6), 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 0379-6779Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,390 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 23 / 182 | 87th | Q1 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 95 / 740 | 87th | Q1 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 58 / 446 | 87th | Q1 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 63 / 408 | 84th | Q1 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 56 / 318 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Materials Chemistry | 65 / 327 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1979–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.6.
Synthetic Metals is Q1 in Metals and Alloys (rank 23 of 182), Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 95 of 740) and Q1 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 58 of 446), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Synthetic Metals 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 8.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.672, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 161.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,390 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.
Synthetic Metals is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 0379-6779.
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.
Synthetic Metals has an h-index of 188 and a 2-year mean of 4.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #36 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
Synthetic Metals published 205 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 334. 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 95 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (21.9%), China (18.9%) and Saudi Arabia (10.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 14 retracted papers are recorded (0.7 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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