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Industrial Lubrication and Tribology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Publishing.
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ISSN 0036-8792Verify ISSN ↗1758-5775Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 337 / 740 | 54th | Q2 |
| Energy (all) | 42 / 79 | 47th | Q3 |
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 82 / 141 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1948–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.4.
Industrial Lubrication and Tribology is Q2 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 337 of 740), Q3 in Energy (all) (rank 42 of 79) and Q3 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 82 of 141), by CiteScore 2025.
Industrial Lubrication and Tribology 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 54th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.337, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 47.
Industrial Lubrication and Tribology is published by Emerald Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0036-8792 and its online ISSN is 1758-5775.
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.
Industrial Lubrication and Tribology has an h-index of 51 and a 2-year mean of 1.99 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #288 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Industrial Lubrication and Tribology published 172 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 244. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (72.2%), India (18.7%) and Türkiye (3%). 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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