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Tetsu-To-Hagane/Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Iron and Steel Institute of Japan.
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ISSN 0021-1575Verify ISSN ↗1883-2954Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Iron and Steel Institute of Japan
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 154 / 182 | 15th | Q4 |
| Materials Chemistry | 291 / 327 | 11th | Q4 |
| Physical and Theoretical Chemistry | 176 / 194 | 9th | Q4 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 415 / 446 | 7th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present (also 1968–1991), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.8.
Tetsu-To-Hagane/Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan is Q4 in Metals and Alloys (rank 154 of 182), Q4 in Materials Chemistry (rank 291 of 327) and Q4 in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (rank 176 of 194), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Tetsu-To-Hagane/Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 15th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.222, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 41.
Tetsu-To-Hagane/Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan is published by Iron and Steel Institute of Japan. Its print ISSN is 0021-1575 and its online ISSN is 1883-2954.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Tetsu-To-Hagane/Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan has an h-index of 55 and a 2-year mean of 0.49 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #117 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
Tetsu-To-Hagane/Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan published 96 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 139. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Japan (100%). 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 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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