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Biosurface and Biotribology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 2405-4518Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 284 / 740 | 61st | Q2 |
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 67 / 141 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Biophysics | 78 / 155 | 50th | Q2 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 186 / 342 | 45th | Q3 |
| Biomaterials | 87 / 146 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.1.
Biosurface and Biotribology is Q2 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 284 of 740), Q2 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 67 of 141) and Q2 in Biophysics (rank 78 of 155), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Biosurface and Biotribology 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 4.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.497, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 13.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,200 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.
Biosurface and Biotribology is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its ISSN is 2405-4518.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Biosurface and Biotribology has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 1.98 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #290 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Biosurface and Biotribology published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 32. 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 100 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (77%), United Kingdom (4.5%) and United States (4.5%). 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. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none 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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