Surface Science: impact and ranking
Surface Science has a 2-year mean citedness of 2.55 in OpenAlex, which ranks #5,003 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 270. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.55 #5,003 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 270 #691 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.1M #304 of 18,122
- Works
- 40k 29.0 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Surface Science?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for Surface Science: 2.55, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Surface Science #5,003 of 18,122 journals, in the top 28%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Surface Science?
OpenAlex gives Surface Science an h-index of 270: 270 of its papers have each been cited at least 270 times. That ranks #691 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Surface Science publish?
OpenAlex records 39,571 works in Surface Science from 1964 to 2026, cited 1,149,020 times in all, 29.0 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #304 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Surface Science
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- Netherlands
- ISSN-L
- 0039-6028
- In OpenAlex
- 1964 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Surface Science as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,340.
- OpenAlex record
- S137865625
Journals ranked near Surface Science
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Surface Science on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,853 | Circulation | 2.61 | 847 |
| 4,899 | Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes | 2.59 | 302 |
| 4,954 | Journal of Hepatology | 2.57 | 382 |
| 5,135 | Journal of Crystal Growth | 2.49 | 207 |
| 5,225 | Personality and Individual Differences | 2.46 | 313 |
| 5,259 | IEEE Transactions on Information Theory | 2.44 | 440 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.