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Tribology International is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 13.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Inc..
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ISSN 0301-679XVerify ISSN ↗1879-2464Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$5,390 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 38 / 740 | 94th | Q1 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 26 / 408 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 15 / 141 | 89th | Q1 |
| Surfaces and Interfaces | 8 / 63 | 88th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1974–present (also 1972), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 13.1.
Tribology International is Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 38 of 740), Q1 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 26 of 408) and Q1 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 15 of 141), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Tribology International 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 13.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.392, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 170.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$5,390 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.
Tribology International is published by Elsevier Inc. Its print ISSN is 0301-679X and its online ISSN is 1879-2464.
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.
Tribology International has an h-index of 186 and a 2-year mean of 8.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 13.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #30 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Tribology International published 1,033 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 1,153. 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 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (74.2%), India (4.1%) and Japan (2.2%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 10 retracted papers are recorded (0.7 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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