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Protection of Metals and Physical Chemistry of Surfaces is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6), 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 2070-2051Verify ISSN ↗2070-206XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 108 / 182 | 40th | Q3 |
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 105 / 141 | 25th | Q3 |
| Materials Chemistry | 243 / 327 | 25th | Q3 |
| Organic Chemistry | 182 / 215 | 15th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
Protection of Metals and Physical Chemistry of Surfaces is Q3 in Metals and Alloys (rank 108 of 182), Q3 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 105 of 141) and Q3 in Materials Chemistry (rank 243 of 327), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Protection of Metals and Physical Chemistry of Surfaces 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 40th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.231, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 39.
Protection of Metals and Physical Chemistry of Surfaces is published by Pleiades Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2070-2051 and its online ISSN is 2070-206X.
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.
Protection of Metals and Physical Chemistry of Surfaces has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 0.74 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #106 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
Protection of Metals and Physical Chemistry of Surfaces published 199 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Russia (43.9%), China (17.6%) and India (11.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (1.5 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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