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Journal of Tribology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
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ISSN 0742-4787Verify ISSN ↗1528-8897Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 196 / 740 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 132 / 408 | 67th | Q2 |
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 50 / 141 | 64th | Q2 |
| Surfaces and Interfaces | 26 / 63 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1977–present (also 1967–1975), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.5.
Journal of Tribology is Q2 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 196 of 740), Q2 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 132 of 408) and Q2 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 50 of 141), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of 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 5.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.475, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 107.
Journal of Tribology is published by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Its print ISSN is 0742-4787 and its online ISSN is 1528-8897.
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 Tribology has an h-index of 130 and a 2-year mean of 2.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #196 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Journal of Tribology published 291 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (43.1%), India (19.1%) and United States (9.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.2 per 1,000 papers). 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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