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Zairyo/Journal of the Society of Materials Science, Japan is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.4). Published by Society of Materials Science Japan.
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ISSN 0514-5163Verify ISSN ↗1880-7488Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Society of Materials Science Japan
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 676 / 740 | 8th | Q4 |
| Materials Science (all) | 448 / 475 | 5th | Q4 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 390 / 408 | 4th | Q4 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 432 / 446 | 3rd | 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 1963–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.4.
Zairyo/Journal of the Society of Materials Science, Japan is Q4 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 676 of 740), Q4 in Materials Science (all) (rank 448 of 475) and Q4 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 390 of 408), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Zairyo/Journal of the Society of Materials Science, Japan 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 0.4, quartile Q4, 8th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.185, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 29.
Zairyo/Journal of the Society of Materials Science, Japan is published by Society of Materials Science Japan. Its print ISSN is 0514-5163 and its online ISSN is 1880-7488.
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.
Zairyo/Journal of the Society of Materials Science, Japan has an h-index of 39 and a 2-year mean of 0.24 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #545 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Zairyo/Journal of the Society of Materials Science, Japan published 133 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 189. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Japan (98.8%), Sri Lanka (0.5%) and South Korea (0.3%). 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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