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Applied Surface Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 13.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0169-4332Verify ISSN ↗1873-5584Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,930 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condensed Matter Physics | 24 / 446 | 94th | Q1 |
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 14 / 141 | 90th | Q1 |
| Surfaces and Interfaces | 7 / 63 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1984–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 13.3.
Applied Surface Science is Q1 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 24 of 446), Q1 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 14 of 141) and Q1 in Surfaces and Interfaces (rank 7 of 63), by CiteScore 2025.
Applied Surface Science is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 13.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.117, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 264.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,930 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Applied Surface Science is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0169-4332 and its online ISSN is 1873-5584.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Applied Surface Science has an h-index of 277 and a 2-year mean of 6.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 13.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #41 of 425 Scopus journals in Condensed Matter Physics.
Applied Surface Science published 3,224 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 4,456. 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.
In its latest 72 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (59.7%), South Korea (6.9%) and Taiwan (3.5%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 88 retracted papers are recorded (1.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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