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International Journal of Surface Science and Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.7), WoS SCIE. Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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ISSN 1749-785XVerify ISSN ↗1749-7868Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 484 / 740 | 34th | Q3 |
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 102 / 141 | 28th | Q3 |
| Surfaces and Interfaces | 50 / 63 | 21st | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.7.
International Journal of Surface Science and Engineering is Q3 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 484 of 740), Q3 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 102 of 141) and Q4 in Surfaces and Interfaces (rank 50 of 63), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Surface Science and Engineering 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 34th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.246, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 23.
International Journal of Surface Science and Engineering is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1749-785X and its online ISSN is 1749-7868.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Surface Science and Engineering has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 0.45 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #506 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
International Journal of Surface Science and Engineering published 33 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 66. 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 63 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (38.9%), India (27.8%) and South Korea (6.3%).
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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