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Journal of Friction and Wear is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Pleiades Publishing.
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ISSN 1068-3666Verify ISSN ↗1934-9386Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 116 / 141 | 18th | Q4 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 338 / 408 | 17th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–1993 (also 1996–2002, 2009–present), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.
Journal of Friction and Wear is Q4 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 116 of 141) and Q4 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 338 of 408), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Friction and Wear 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, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 18th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.226, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 28.
Journal of Friction and Wear is published by Pleiades Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1068-3666 and its online ISSN is 1934-9386.
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.
Journal of Friction and Wear has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 0.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #103 of 128 Scopus journals in Surfaces, Coatings and Films.
Journal of Friction and Wear published 58 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 99. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from Russia (72.2%), Belarus (18%) and Azerbaijan (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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