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Coatings is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 6.1), WoS SCIE. Published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI).
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ISSN 2079-6412Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
Cost to publish: About US$3,137 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 37 / 141 | 74th | Q2 |
| Surfaces and Interfaces | 21 / 63 | 67th | Q2 |
| Materials Chemistry | 113 / 327 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 6.1.
Coatings is Q2 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 37 of 141), Q2 in Surfaces and Interfaces (rank 21 of 63) and Q2 in Materials Chemistry (rank 113 of 327), by CiteScore 2025.
Coatings 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 6.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.557, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 100.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,137 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.
Coatings is published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). Its ISSN is 2079-6412.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Coatings has an h-index of 116 and a 2-year mean of 4.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #35 of 128 Scopus journals in Surfaces, Coatings and Films.
Coatings published 1,519 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 2,086. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (66.7%), Türkiye (4%) and Kazakhstan (2.5%). 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. 73 retracted papers are recorded (5.6 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 2 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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