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Progress in Surface Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0079-6816Verify ISSN ↗1878-4240Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,130 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condensed Matter Physics | 25 / 446 | 94th | Q1 |
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 16 / 141 | 89th | Q1 |
| Surfaces and Interfaces | 9 / 63 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1971–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.6.
Progress in Surface Science is Q1 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 25 of 446), Q1 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 16 of 141) and Q1 in Surfaces and Interfaces (rank 9 of 63), by CiteScore 2025.
Progress in Surface Science 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 12.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.588, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 96.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,130 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Progress in Surface Science is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0079-6816 and its online ISSN is 1878-4240.
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.
Progress in Surface Science has an h-index of 127 and a 2-year mean of 2.74 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #167 of 425 Scopus journals in Condensed Matter Physics.
Progress in Surface Science published 15 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 16. 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 48 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (30.9%), Germany (12%) and United States (8.7%).
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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