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Surface and Coatings Technology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0257-8972Verify ISSN ↗1879-3347Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,880 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condensed Matter Physics | 34 / 446 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Chemistry (all) | 52 / 402 | 87th | Q1 |
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 20 / 141 | 86th | Q1 |
| Materials Chemistry | 46 / 327 | 86th | Q1 |
| Surfaces and Interfaces | 12 / 63 | 81st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.8.
Surface and Coatings Technology is Q1 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 34 of 446), Q1 in Chemistry (all) (rank 52 of 402) and Q1 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 20 of 141), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Surface and Coatings Technology 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 10.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.219, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 219.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,880 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.
Surface and Coatings Technology is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0257-8972 and its online ISSN is 1879-3347.
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.
Surface and Coatings Technology has an h-index of 227 and a 2-year mean of 7.33 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #27 of 425 Scopus journals in Condensed Matter Physics.
Surface and Coatings Technology published 1,250 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 1,400. 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 85 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (52.4%), Germany (5.7%) and Taiwan (3.5%). 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. 22 retracted papers are recorded (0.7 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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