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Thin Solid Films is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.3), 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 0040-6090Verify ISSN ↗1879-2731Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,120 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 54 / 182 | 70th | Q2 |
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 61 / 141 | 57th | Q2 |
| Surfaces and Interfaces | 28 / 63 | 56th | Q2 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 149 / 318 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Materials Chemistry | 165 / 327 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1967–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.3.
Thin Solid Films is Q2 in Metals and Alloys (rank 54 of 182), Q2 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 61 of 141) and Q2 in Surfaces and Interfaces (rank 28 of 63), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Thin Solid Films 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 4.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.408, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 225.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,120 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.
Thin Solid Films is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0040-6090 and its online ISSN is 1879-2731.
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.
Thin Solid Films has an h-index of 255 and a 2-year mean of 2.81 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #54 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
Thin Solid Films published 239 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 894. 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 (22.1%), Japan (8.8%) and India (7.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 24 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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