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Journal of Surface Science and Technology is indexed in Web of Science (ESCI). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q4. Published by Connect Journals.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0970-1893Verify ISSN ↗0973-483XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Connect Journals
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 355 / 422 | 15th | Q4 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 371 / 432 | 14th | Q4 |
| Plant Science | 466 / 541 | 13th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
No — it was previously covered by Scopus but its coverage is now inactive/discontinued (2014–2021 (also 1996–2012)).
Journal of Surface Science and Technology 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 15th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.157, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 12.
Journal of Surface Science and Technology is published by Connect Journals. Its print ISSN is 0970-1893 and its online ISSN is 0973-483X.
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 Science and Technology has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q4.
Journal of Surface Science and Technology published 9 papers in 2023; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 26. 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. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 23 research articles (2021–2023), authors are most often from India (84.8%), Nepal (4.3%) and Syria (4.3%). 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: Inactive — coverage ended 2021. 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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