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Surface Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.8), 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 0039-6028Verify ISSN ↗1879-2758Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,340 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 70 / 141 | 50th | Q2 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 222 / 446 | 50th | Q2 |
| Surfaces and Interfaces | 35 / 63 | 45th | Q3 |
| Materials Chemistry | 181 / 327 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1964–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.8.
Surface Science is Q2 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 70 of 141), Q2 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 222 of 446) and Q3 in Surfaces and Interfaces (rank 35 of 63), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Surface Science 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 50th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.428, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 169.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,340 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 Science is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0039-6028 and its online ISSN is 1879-2758.
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 Science has an h-index of 270 and a 2-year mean of 2.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #65 of 128 Scopus journals in Surfaces, Coatings and Films.
Surface Science published 152 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 239. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (39.7%), India (8.9%) and Japan (8.4%).
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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