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Tribology Online is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Japanese Society of Tribologists.
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ISSN 1881-218XVerify ISSN ↗1881-2198Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Japanese Society of Tribologists
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 95 / 141 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.1.
Tribology Online is Q3 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 95 of 141), by CiteScore 2025.
Tribology Online 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 32nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.314, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 25.
Tribology Online is published by Japanese Society of Tribologists. Its print ISSN is 1881-218X and its online ISSN is 1881-2198.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Tribology Online has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 1.6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #82 of 128 Scopus journals in Surfaces, Coatings and Films.
Tribology Online published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 63. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from Japan (65.4%), India (6.5%) and France (4.3%). 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. 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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