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Surface Review and Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd.
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ISSN 0218-625XVerify ISSN ↗1793-6667Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condensed Matter Physics | 242 / 446 | 45th | Q3 |
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 80 / 141 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Materials Chemistry | 190 / 327 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Surfaces and Interfaces | 40 / 63 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.5.
Surface Review and Letters is Q3 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 242 of 446), Q3 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 80 of 141) and Q3 in Materials Chemistry (rank 190 of 327), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Surface Review and Letters 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 45th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.233, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 53.
Surface Review and Letters is published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0218-625X and its online ISSN is 1793-6667.
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 Review and Letters has an h-index of 57 and a 2-year mean of 0.95 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #327 of 425 Scopus journals in Condensed Matter Physics.
Surface Review and Letters published 171 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 217. 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 80 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (35.2%), India (34.3%) and Vietnam (8.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 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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