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Wear is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0043-1648Verify ISSN ↗1873-2577Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$5,394 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condensed Matter Physics | 38 / 446 | 91st | Q1 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 42 / 408 | 89th | Q1 |
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 21 / 141 | 85th | Q1 |
| Materials Chemistry | 50 / 327 | 84th | Q1 |
| Surfaces and Interfaces | 13 / 63 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1957–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.4.
Wear is Q1 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 38 of 446), Q1 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 42 of 408) and Q1 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 21 of 141), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Wear 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 10.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.304, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 207.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$5,394 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.
Wear is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0043-1648 and its online ISSN is 1873-2577.
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.
Wear has an h-index of 244 and a 2-year mean of 5.82 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #50 of 425 Scopus journals in Condensed Matter Physics.
Wear published 683 papers in 2025. 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 89 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (64.1%), Brazil (3.9%) and United Kingdom (3.1%). 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. 8 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 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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