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Applied Surface Science Advances is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 15.4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2666-5239Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 8 / 141 | 94th | Q1 |
| Surfaces and Interfaces | 4 / 63 | 94th | Q1 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 15.4.
Applied Surface Science Advances is Q1 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 8 of 141) and Q1 in Surfaces and Interfaces (rank 4 of 63), by CiteScore 2025.
Applied Surface Science Advances is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 15.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.558, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 51.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,350 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 Advances is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2666-5239.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Applied Surface Science Advances has an h-index of 62 and a 2-year mean of 5.81 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 15.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #24 of 128 Scopus journals in Surfaces, Coatings and Films.
Applied Surface Science Advances published 224 papers in 2025. 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 91 research articles (2026), authors are most often from South Korea (14.2%), Taiwan (8.7%) and Czechia (7.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (4 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.
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