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Tribology Transactions is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1040-2004Verify ISSN ↗1547-397XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 309 / 740 | 58th | Q2 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 194 / 408 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 73 / 141 | 48th | Q3 |
| Surfaces and Interfaces | 37 / 63 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.7.
Tribology Transactions is Q2 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 309 of 740), Q2 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 194 of 408) and Q3 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 73 of 141), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Tribology Transactions 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 58th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.465, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 87.
Tribology Transactions is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1040-2004 and its online ISSN is 1547-397X.
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 Transactions has an h-index of 95 and a 2-year mean of 2.61 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #222 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Tribology Transactions published 123 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 128. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (49.7%), United States (10.8%) and India (7.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 6 retracted papers are recorded (1.6 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.
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