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Tribology - Materials, Surfaces and Interfaces is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.7), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 1751-5831Verify ISSN ↗1751-584XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,150 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 318 / 740 | 57th | Q2 |
| Materials Science (all) | 260 / 475 | 45th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.7.
Tribology - Materials, Surfaces and Interfaces is Q2 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 318 of 740) and Q3 in Materials Science (all) (rank 260 of 475), by CiteScore 2025.
Tribology - Materials, Surfaces and Interfaces is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 57th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.314, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 29.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,150 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 - Materials, Surfaces and Interfaces is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1751-5831 and its online ISSN is 1751-584X.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Tribology - Materials, Surfaces and Interfaces has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 2.95 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #192 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Tribology - Materials, Surfaces and Interfaces published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 32. 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 97 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from India (43.6%), United Kingdom (9.1%) and China (6%).
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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