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Friction is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 14.2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Tsinghua University Press.
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ISSN 2223-7690Verify ISSN ↗2223-7704Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Tsinghua University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 27 / 740 | 96th | Q1 |
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 11 / 141 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 14.2.
Friction is Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 27 of 740) and Q1 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 11 of 141), by CiteScore 2025.
Friction 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 14.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.344, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 69.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Friction is published by Tsinghua University Press. Its print ISSN is 2223-7690 and its online ISSN is 2223-7704.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Friction has an h-index of 81 and a 2-year mean of 5.88 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 14.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #59 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Friction published 158 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 281. 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 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (70.5%), United Kingdom (4.7%) and Germany (4.1%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.4 per 1,000 papers). 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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