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Journal of Surface Investigation is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.7), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Pleiades Publishing.
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ISSN 1027-4510Verify ISSN ↗1819-7094Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 123 / 141 | 13th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present (also 1997–2001), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.7.
Journal of Surface Investigation is Q4 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 123 of 141), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Surface Investigation is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 13th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.162, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 27.
Journal of Surface Investigation is published by Pleiades Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1027-4510 and its online ISSN is 1819-7094.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Surface Investigation has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 0.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #109 of 128 Scopus journals in Surfaces, Coatings and Films.
Journal of Surface Investigation published 447 papers in 2025. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from Russia (90.2%), Uzbekistan (3%) and India (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. 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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