Open Access
Open access

Metals

MDPI
MDPI
ISSN: 20754701
SCImago
Q1
WOS
Q2
Impact factor
2.6
SJR
0.554
CiteScore
4.9
Categories
Metals and Alloys
Materials Science (miscellaneous)
Areas
Materials Science
Years of issue
2011-2025
journal names
Metals
METALS-BASEL
Publications
13 199
Citations
123 432
h-index
82
Publications
9 520
Citations
111 451
Top-3 citing journals
Metals
Metals (15553 citations)
Materials
Materials (8357 citations)
Top-3 organizations
Top-3 countries
China (5434 publications)
Germany (1040 publications)
Russia (895 publications)
China (3886 publications)
Russia (770 publications)
Germany (693 publications)

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Metals
15553 citations, 12.6%
Materials
8357 citations, 6.77%
Journal of Materials Research and Technology
3199 citations, 2.59%
Journal of Alloys and Compounds
2430 citations, 1.97%
Materials Science & Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing
2364 citations, 1.92%
International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
2185 citations, 1.77%
Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance
1782 citations, 1.44%
Coatings
1402 citations, 1.14%
Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
1359 citations, 1.1%
Materials Today Communications
1309 citations, 1.06%
Steel Research International
1188 citations, 0.96%
Journal of Manufacturing Processes
1062 citations, 0.86%
Crystals
1040 citations, 0.84%
Materials Characterization
964 citations, 0.78%
Materials and Design
962 citations, 0.78%
Surface and Coatings Technology
847 citations, 0.69%
Advanced Engineering Materials
832 citations, 0.67%
Materials Today: Proceedings
807 citations, 0.65%
Materials Research Express
806 citations, 0.65%
Additive Manufacturing
802 citations, 0.65%
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B
720 citations, 0.58%
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science
711 citations, 0.58%
International Journal of Fatigue
666 citations, 0.54%
JOM
662 citations, 0.54%
Journal of Materials Science
642 citations, 0.52%
Ceramics International
609 citations, 0.49%
Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing
580 citations, 0.47%
Acta Materialia
579 citations, 0.47%
Corrosion Science
572 citations, 0.46%
IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
565 citations, 0.46%
Scientific Reports
544 citations, 0.44%
AIP Conference Proceedings
544 citations, 0.44%
Engineering Failure Analysis
531 citations, 0.43%
Processes
516 citations, 0.42%
Metals and Materials International
510 citations, 0.41%
Minerals
498 citations, 0.4%
Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering
492 citations, 0.4%
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
466 citations, 0.38%
Minerals, Metals and Materials Series
449 citations, 0.36%
Journal of Iron and Steel Research International
444 citations, 0.36%
Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals
429 citations, 0.35%
Journal of Materials Science and Technology
428 citations, 0.35%
Energies
419 citations, 0.34%
Journal of Magnesium and Alloys
406 citations, 0.33%
Materials Chemistry and Physics
405 citations, 0.33%
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
404 citations, 0.33%
International Journal of Metalcasting
398 citations, 0.32%
Welding in the World, Le Soudage Dans Le Monde
394 citations, 0.32%
Journal of Materials Processing Technology
393 citations, 0.32%
Materials Letters
388 citations, 0.31%
Optics and Laser Technology
388 citations, 0.31%
Ironmaking and Steelmaking
355 citations, 0.29%
Intermetallics
355 citations, 0.29%
Sustainability
354 citations, 0.29%
Minerals Engineering
354 citations, 0.29%
Heliyon
343 citations, 0.28%
Journal of Cleaner Production
338 citations, 0.27%
Nanomaterials
325 citations, 0.26%
ISIJ International
320 citations, 0.26%
Separation and Purification Technology
317 citations, 0.26%
Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy
312 citations, 0.25%
Progress in Additive Manufacturing
311 citations, 0.25%
Polymers
303 citations, 0.25%
Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures
300 citations, 0.24%
Vacuum
297 citations, 0.24%
Tribology International
296 citations, 0.24%
International Journal of Mechanical Sciences
296 citations, 0.24%
Materials Science and Technology
295 citations, 0.24%
Materials Science Forum
293 citations, 0.24%
Materials and Manufacturing Processes
290 citations, 0.23%
Sensors
284 citations, 0.23%
Key Engineering Materials
284 citations, 0.23%
Applied Surface Science
282 citations, 0.23%
Scripta Materialia
275 citations, 0.22%
Micromachines
274 citations, 0.22%
Wear
267 citations, 0.22%
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering
263 citations, 0.21%
Procedia Structural Integrity
253 citations, 0.2%
International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials
247 citations, 0.2%
Lubricants
243 citations, 0.2%
Materialia
243 citations, 0.2%
Procedia CIRP
239 citations, 0.19%
Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering
238 citations, 0.19%
Progress in Materials Science
237 citations, 0.19%
Computational Materials Science
236 citations, 0.19%
International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials
236 citations, 0.19%
Machines
235 citations, 0.19%
International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing
235 citations, 0.19%
Hydrometallurgy
230 citations, 0.19%
Powder Technology
229 citations, 0.19%
Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
227 citations, 0.18%
Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China
224 citations, 0.18%
Engineering Fracture Mechanics
222 citations, 0.18%
Materials Transactions
208 citations, 0.17%
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications
196 citations, 0.16%
Journal of Nuclear Materials
196 citations, 0.16%
Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
194 citations, 0.16%
Chemical Engineering Journal
194 citations, 0.16%
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science
192 citations, 0.16%
Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering
188 citations, 0.15%
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Elsevier
40132 citations, 32.51%
MDPI
34749 citations, 28.15%
Springer Nature
18674 citations, 15.13%
Wiley
4406 citations, 3.57%
Taylor & Francis
3284 citations, 2.66%
IOP Publishing
2863 citations, 2.32%
SAGE
1702 citations, 1.38%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
1190 citations, 0.96%
AIP Publishing
1082 citations, 0.88%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
957 citations, 0.78%
Pleiades Publishing
935 citations, 0.76%
Trans Tech Publications
905 citations, 0.73%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
839 citations, 0.68%
Walter de Gruyter
737 citations, 0.6%
EDP Sciences
688 citations, 0.56%
ASM International
496 citations, 0.4%
Emerald
445 citations, 0.36%
Hindawi Limited
441 citations, 0.36%
Frontiers Media S.A.
434 citations, 0.35%
Iron and Steel Institute of Japan
362 citations, 0.29%
ASME International
319 citations, 0.26%
Japan Institute of Metals
249 citations, 0.2%
Cambridge University Press
231 citations, 0.19%
Korean Institute of Metals and Materials
200 citations, 0.16%
World Scientific
198 citations, 0.16%
The Electrochemical Society
182 citations, 0.15%
National University of Science & Technology (MISiS)
169 citations, 0.14%
168 citations, 0.14%
American Physical Society (APS)
167 citations, 0.14%
University of Science and Technology Beijing
162 citations, 0.13%
159 citations, 0.13%
Laser Institute of America
156 citations, 0.13%
IGI Global
156 citations, 0.13%
IntechOpen
155 citations, 0.13%
Research Square Platform LLC
124 citations, 0.1%
Oxford University Press
117 citations, 0.09%
SAE International
100 citations, 0.08%
Universidade Federal de São Carlos
95 citations, 0.08%
The Russian Academy of Sciences
92 citations, 0.07%
Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
79 citations, 0.06%
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Co. LTD Ukrinformnauka) (Publications)
77 citations, 0.06%
ASTM International
75 citations, 0.06%
69 citations, 0.06%
Nonferrous Metals Society of China
69 citations, 0.06%
Institute for Metals Superplasticity Problems of RAS
69 citations, 0.06%
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
66 citations, 0.05%
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
66 citations, 0.05%
Mary Ann Liebert
65 citations, 0.05%
NACE International
62 citations, 0.05%
Editora Edgard Blucher, Ltda.
61 citations, 0.05%
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
59 citations, 0.05%
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
55 citations, 0.04%
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
52 citations, 0.04%
The Korean Society of Precision Engineering
52 citations, 0.04%
SciELO
49 citations, 0.04%
Tsinghua University Press
48 citations, 0.04%
OAE Publishing Inc.
48 citations, 0.04%
40 citations, 0.03%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
39 citations, 0.03%
Optica Publishing Group
39 citations, 0.03%
American Vacuum Society
35 citations, 0.03%
King Saud University
33 citations, 0.03%
Scientific Research Publishing
33 citations, 0.03%
IOS Press
32 citations, 0.03%
Thomas Telford
32 citations, 0.03%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
31 citations, 0.03%
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)
31 citations, 0.03%
Institute of Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy
31 citations, 0.03%
30 citations, 0.02%
The Royal Society
29 citations, 0.02%
28 citations, 0.02%
Begell House
27 citations, 0.02%
Korean Society of Industrial Engineering Chemistry
27 citations, 0.02%
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
27 citations, 0.02%
Associacao Brasileira da Soldagem
27 citations, 0.02%
Science in China Press
27 citations, 0.02%
Japan Institute of Light Metals
26 citations, 0.02%
Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers
25 citations, 0.02%</