Emergent Materials

ISSN 2522-5731 · Springer Science+Business Media · Switzerland · active 2018–2026

Metrics

Scimago quartile (2025)
Q2
Cites per paper (2y)
4.4
SJR
0.727
h-index
56

“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric (how the two differ). Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline. What the other figures mean: journal quartile, SJR, h-index and article processing charge.

Data as of 18 October 2026 (venue index build).

Scimago Journal Rank 2025

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Emergent Materials is Q2 in all 4 of its subject categories.

Scimago 2025 quartile and rank of Emergent Materials in each subject category
Subject categoryQuartileRank in category
Ceramics and CompositesQ2#38 of 131
Waste Management and DisposalQ2#58 of 152
BiomaterialsQ2#68 of 145
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the EnvironmentQ2#132 of 305
Cites per document (2 years, Scopus)
4.63
Documents indexed in 2025 (Scopus)
491

The quartile is the one Scimago prints for each category. Rank is the journal's position by SJR among the journals Scimago lists in that category (#1 is the highest); “—” means we hold no rank consistent with that quartile. The document count is what Scopus indexed that year, which can be lower than a journal's full output. Source: SCImago Journal Rank 2025 edition, from Scopus data (scimagojr.com, CC BY-NC).

Emergent Materials is Q2 in all 4 of its Scimago subject categories (2025 edition; best category Ceramics and Composites: Q2, #38 of 131), with SJR 0.727 (Scimago) and an h-index of 56 (OpenAlex). Listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed.

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Responding time

Submission to first decision
14 days (median)
Publisher-reported

Turnaround figures are indicative, not a guarantee: DOAJ values are self-reported by the journal (average weeks, submission to publication); library estimates are medians of the received/accepted dates printed in papers we hold. Editorial times vary by article type and season — confirm on the journal’s own site.

Indexing & access

Indexed in
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
Access status:
hybrid. Where this comes from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic — confirm on the journal’s own site, especially regarding any article processing charge.

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Scope

advancedphotocatalysistechniquesrenewableenergysustainabilityenvironmentconductingpolymersplasticssupercapacitormaterials

Frequently asked

Is Emergent Materials a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag Emergent Materials. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, which is a positive signal.

Is Emergent Materials indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, Emergent Materials appears in: Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is the impact factor of Emergent Materials?

Papers in Emergent Materials are cited about 4.4 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q2, with an h-index of 56. Those are the open equivalents: the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is a proprietary metric we neither compute nor license, so we show the two-year citation rate and Scimago quartile instead — they answer the same question of how heavily the journal is cited. A citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

What Scimago quartile is Emergent Materials (Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4)?

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Emergent Materials is Q2 in all 4 of its subject categories. By category: Ceramics and Composites: Q2, #38 of 131; Waste Management and Disposal: Q2, #58 of 152; Biomaterials: Q2, #68 of 145; Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: Q2, #132 of 305. Quartiles split the journals in a subject category into four equal groups by SJR, so Q1 is the most-cited quarter and Q4 the least; Emergent Materials is cited about 4.4 times per paper over two years, with an h-index of 56.

What is the Web of Science (JCR) quartile of Emergent Materials?

The Web of Science quartile comes from Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a proprietary product we neither license nor compute — so we cannot state a JCR quartile for Emergent Materials. The open equivalent is its Scimago quartile, Q2, derived from Scopus citation data. Because JCR ranks against Web of Science and Scimago against Scopus, the two can differ, so check Clarivate's site directly if you need the JCR quartile specifically.

Is Emergent Materials open access?

Our index records its access status as "hybrid". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.

How long does Emergent Materials take to publish a paper?

Submission to first decision for Emergent Materials takes about 14 days (median) — Publisher-reported. Treat it as indicative rather than a guarantee: editorial times vary by article type, reviewer availability and season, and a self-reported figure is the journal's own. We do not hold a peer-review acceptance rate for Emergent Materials.

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