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Welding and Cutting is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.2). Published by Deutscher Verlag fur Schweisstechnik GmbH.
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ISSN 1612-3433Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Deutscher Verlag fur Schweisstechnik GmbH
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 173 / 182 | 5th | Q4 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 707 / 740 | 4th | Q4 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 401 / 408 | 1st | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.2.
Welding and Cutting is Q4 in Metals and Alloys (rank 173 of 182), Q4 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 707 of 740) and Q4 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 401 of 408), by CiteScore 2025.
Welding and Cutting is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4, 5th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.103, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 12.
Welding and Cutting is published by Deutscher Verlag fur Schweisstechnik GmbH. Its ISSN is 1612-3433.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Welding and Cutting has an h-index of 1 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #143 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
Welding and Cutting published 2 papers in 2015; its busiest recent year was 2011 with 3. 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.
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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