Get an email when this journal's indexing changes
Added to or removed from Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas or ONOS. One confirmation click; unsubscribe anytime.
Welding Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4), WoS SCIE. Published by American Welding Society.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0043-2296Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Welding Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 121 / 182 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 527 / 740 | 28th | Q3 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 307 / 408 | 24th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present (also 1969–1990), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
Welding Journal is Q3 in Metals and Alloys (rank 121 of 182), Q3 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 527 of 740) and Q4 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 307 of 408), by CiteScore 2025.
Welding Journal 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 33rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.254, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 84.
Welding Journal is published by American Welding Society. Its ISSN is 0043-2296.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Welding Journal has an h-index of 57 and a 2-year mean of 1.82 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #70 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
Welding Journal published 33 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 36. 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 50 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (38.7%), United States (33.7%) and Canada (13.7%).
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.
Comments load as you scroll here.