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Surface Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 0267-0844Verify ISSN ↗1743-2944Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,150 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condensed Matter Physics | 226 / 446 | 49th | Q3 |
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 74 / 141 | 47th | Q3 |
| Materials Chemistry | 183 / 327 | 44th | Q3 |
| Surfaces and Interfaces | 38 / 63 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1985–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.7.
Surface Engineering is Q3 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 226 of 446), Q3 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 74 of 141) and Q3 in Materials Chemistry (rank 183 of 327), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Surface Engineering 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 49th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.360, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 61.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,150 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 Engineering is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0267-0844 and its online ISSN is 1743-2944.
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 Engineering has an h-index of 72 and a 2-year mean of 2.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #195 of 425 Scopus journals in Condensed Matter Physics.
Surface Engineering published 95 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 152. 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 95 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (37.9%), China (33.7%) and United States (6.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 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.
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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