Journal of Composite Materials

ISSN 0021-9983 · SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom · active 1967–2026

Metrics

Scimago quartile (2025)
Q2
Cites per paper (2y)
2.8
SJR
0.488
h-index
182

“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 1 November 2026 (venue index build).

Scimago Journal Rank 2025

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

Scimago 2025 quartile and rank of Journal of Composite Materials in each subject category
Subject categoryQuartileRank in category
Ceramics and CompositesQ2#57 of 131
Materials ChemistryQ2#142 of 331
Mechanics of MaterialsQ2#171 of 412
Mechanical EngineeringQ2#259 of 696
Cites per document (2 years, Scopus)
3.20
Documents indexed in 2025 (Scopus)
299

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).

Journal of Composite Materials is Q2 in all 4 of its Scimago subject categories (2025 edition; best category Ceramics and Composites: Q2, #57 of 131), with SJR 0.488 (Scimago) and an h-index of 182 (OpenAlex). Listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed.

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Indexing & access

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Access status:
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Scope

mechanicalbehaviorcompositesmechanicsmaterialsfiber-reinforcedpolymerengineeringcompositematerialstructureoptimization

Frequently asked

Is Journal of Composite Materials a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag Journal of Composite 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 Journal of Composite Materials indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, Journal of Composite 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 Journal of Composite Materials?

Papers in Journal of Composite Materials are cited about 2.8 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q2, with an h-index of 182. 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 Journal of Composite Materials (Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4)?

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Journal of Composite Materials is Q2 in all 4 of its subject categories. By category: Ceramics and Composites: Q2, #57 of 131; Materials Chemistry: Q2, #142 of 331; Mechanics of Materials: Q2, #171 of 412; Mechanical Engineering: Q2, #259 of 696. 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; Journal of Composite Materials is cited about 2.8 times per paper over two years, with an h-index of 182.

What is the Web of Science (JCR) quartile of Journal of Composite 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 Journal of Composite 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 Journal of Composite 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.

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