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Vakuum in Forschung und Praxis is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.2), WoS ESCI. Published by Wiley-VCH Verlag.
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ISSN 0947-076XVerify ISSN ↗1522-2454Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag
Cost to publish: About US$3,300 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 115 / 141 | 18th | Q4 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 381 / 446 | 14th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–2024, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.2.
Vakuum in Forschung und Praxis is Q4 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 115 of 141) and Q4 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 381 of 446), by CiteScore 2025.
Vakuum in Forschung und Praxis 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 18th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.153, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 16.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,300 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.
Vakuum in Forschung und Praxis is published by Wiley-VCH Verlag. Its print ISSN is 0947-076X and its online ISSN is 1522-2454.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Vakuum in Forschung und Praxis has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #114 of 128 Scopus journals in Surfaces, Coatings and Films.
Vakuum in Forschung und Praxis published 61 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 113. 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 20 research articles (2023–2024), authors are most often from Germany (70%), Canada (5%) and Switzerland (5%). 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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