Journal profile · MATERIALS SCIENCE, CHARACTERIZATION & TESTING
Strength Fracture and Complexity
ISSN 1567-2069 · eISSN 1875-9262 · SAGE Publications (formerly IOS Press)
Strength Fracture and Complexity: CAS Zone 4 · Materials Science (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.2 (journal website); subscription journal; APC about USD 4,150; 14 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Strength Fracture and Complexity is published by SAGE Publications (formerly IOS Press) and is in Zone 4 of Materials Science in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Fatigue and fracture mechanics, High Temperature Alloys and Creep and Numerical methods in engineering, together about 35.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Mechanics of Materials. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Fracture has been studied for many years, for instance more than 160 as far as fatigue is concerned. Even though nanostudies and computational science are rapidly developing, fracture and its related problems remain unsolved, such as using equations expressed in non-linear nano, meso and macroscopic terms with no ad hoc parameters including time developments. This … | View full journal description
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): MATERIALS SCIENCE, CHARACTERIZATION & TESTING
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Fatigue and fracture mechanicsEngineering18.8%
- High Temperature Alloys and CreepEngineering10.2%
- Numerical methods in engineeringEngineering6.8%
- Material Properties and Failure MechanismsMaterials Science6.4%
- High-Velocity Impact and Material BehaviorMaterials Science5.4%
- Mechanical Behavior of CompositesEngineering4.3%
- Rock Mechanics and ModelingEngineering4.1%
- Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of SteelsEngineering3.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Materials Science Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Materials Science | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Materials Science, Characterization & Testing | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Materials Science Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Materials Science | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Materials Science, Characterization & Testing | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 0.2Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 0.3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.6LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.13LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.21LetPub ·
- h-index
- 14OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 29OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.26OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 50%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 3.23%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 15LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 323 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 14 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 7 | 2 | 4 |
| 2023 | 9 | 0 | 15 |
| 2022 | 15 | 3 | 11 |
| 2021 | 9 | 1 | 19 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 4,150 / GBP 3,043 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare8 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 200 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 4
- Reference style
- Vancouver
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Required
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted2
- original research articleOriginal Research Article Research Articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or …Length not stated
- research articleOriginal Research Article Research Articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or …Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints
- Authorship Author contributions
You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Figures submitted in color will be published in color in the online version of the journal at no cost. If you wish to have color figures in the printed version, fees will be determined and applied at production stage. Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice program, and Open Access agreements, where …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Single-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejec…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications (formerly IOS Press)
- ISSN
- 1567-2069
- Electronic ISSN
- 1875-9262
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Strength Fracture and Complexity
What CAS zone is Strength Fracture and Complexity in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Strength Fracture and Complexity is in Zone 4 of Materials Science, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Materials Science, Characterization & Testing. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Materials Science. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Strength Fracture and Complexity?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 0.2; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 0.6, h-index 14.
What are the manuscript requirements of Strength Fracture and Complexity?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 200 words; Keywords: ≥ 4; Reference style: Vancouver; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Required; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Which databases index Strength Fracture and Complexity?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Strength Fracture and Complexity is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is Strength Fracture and Complexity open access, and what is the APC?
Strength Fracture and Complexity is a subscription journal. APC about USD 4,150.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .