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Tribology Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media, LLC.
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ISSN 1023-8883Verify ISSN ↗1573-2711Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media, LLC
Cost to publish: About US$3,990 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 195 / 740 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 131 / 408 | 68th | Q2 |
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 49 / 141 | 65th | Q2 |
| Surfaces and Interfaces | 25 / 63 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.5.
Tribology Letters is Q2 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 195 of 740), Q2 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 131 of 408) and Q2 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 49 of 141), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Tribology 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 5.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.610, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 116.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,990 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 Letters is published by Springer Science and Business Media, LLC. Its print ISSN is 1023-8883 and its online ISSN is 1573-2711.
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 Letters has an h-index of 124 and a 2-year mean of 4.64 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #98 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Tribology Letters published 153 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 171. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (38.6%), United States (12.1%) and Japan (7.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (1 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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