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Zhongguo Youse Jinshu Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Nonferrous Metals is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.1). Published by Central South University.
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ISSN 1004-0609Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Central South University
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 95 / 182 | 48th | Q3 |
| Materials Chemistry | 223 / 327 | 31st | Q3 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 318 / 446 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.1.
Zhongguo Youse Jinshu Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Nonferrous Metals is Q3 in Metals and Alloys (rank 95 of 182), Q3 in Materials Chemistry (rank 223 of 327) and Q3 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 318 of 446), by CiteScore 2025.
Zhongguo Youse Jinshu Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Nonferrous Metals 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 2.1, quartile Q3, 48th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.237, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 39.
Zhongguo Youse Jinshu Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Nonferrous Metals is published by Central South University. Its ISSN is 1004-0609.
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.
Zhongguo Youse Jinshu Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Nonferrous Metals has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #143 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
Zhongguo Youse Jinshu Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Nonferrous Metals published 1 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2012 with 359. 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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