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Surface Innovations is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 6.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by ICE Publishing.
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ISSN 2050-6252Verify ISSN ↗2050-6260Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: ICE Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 36 / 141 | 74th | Q2 |
| Materials Chemistry | 110 / 327 | 66th | Q2 |
| Process Chemistry and Technology | 31 / 84 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 6.2.
Surface Innovations is Q2 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 36 of 141), Q2 in Materials Chemistry (rank 110 of 327) and Q2 in Process Chemistry and Technology (rank 31 of 84), by CiteScore 2025.
Surface Innovations 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 6.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.313, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 34.
Surface Innovations is published by ICE Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2050-6252 and its online ISSN is 2050-6260.
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 Innovations has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 2.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #68 of 128 Scopus journals in Surfaces, Coatings and Films.
Surface Innovations published 42 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 59. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (46.5%), Saudi Arabia (12.3%) and Türkiye (6.3%).
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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