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Tungsten is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 15.2), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer International Publishing.
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ISSN 2661-8028Verify ISSN ↗2661-8036Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$3,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 8 / 182 | 95th | Q1 |
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 9 / 141 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Materials Chemistry | 25 / 327 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Materials Science (miscellaneous) | 25 / 256 | 90th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 15.2.
Tungsten is Q1 in Metals and Alloys (rank 8 of 182), Q1 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 9 of 141) and Q1 in Materials Chemistry (rank 25 of 327), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Tungsten is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 15.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.249, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 40.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,190 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.
Tungsten is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2661-8028 and its online ISSN is 2661-8036.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Tungsten has an h-index of 47 and a 2-year mean of 8.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 15.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #12 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
Tungsten published 59 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 69. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (66.8%), India (5.5%) and United States (4.9%). 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.
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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