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Surface Science Reports is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 14.2), 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 0167-5729Verify ISSN ↗1879-274XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$4,440 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condensed Matter Physics | 17 / 446 | 96th | Q1 |
| Metals and Alloys | 12 / 182 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Surfaces and Interfaces | 5 / 63 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 25 / 318 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 12 / 141 | 91st | Q1 |
| Materials Chemistry | 29 / 327 | 91st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1981–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 14.2.
Surface Science Reports is Q1 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 17 of 446), Q1 in Metals and Alloys (rank 12 of 182) and Q1 in Surfaces and Interfaces (rank 5 of 63), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Surface Science Reports 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 14.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.706, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 134.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,440 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 Reports is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0167-5729 and its online ISSN is 1879-274X.
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 Reports has an h-index of 173 and a 2-year mean of 5.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 14.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #49 of 425 Scopus journals in Condensed Matter Physics.
Surface Science Reports published 7 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 16. 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 31 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (24.2%), United States (20.4%) and Germany (9.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (1.6 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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