About the Journal

Surface Technology

Surface Technology was founded in 1972. It is headed by China South Industries Group Co., Ltd., sponsored by Southwest Institute of Technology and Engineering, and published by Editorial Office of Surface Technology. It has a high reputation in the field of Chinese surface technology and has a wide author group and reader group. Surface Technology mainly reports on the scientific research, new technologies and new processes in the field of surface technology such as corrosion and protection, friction, wear and lubrication, precision and ultra-precision machining, surface modification of medical biomaterials, biomimetic function surface, and functional films. It is based on industry hotspots, focuses on national strategical objective, highlights key technologies, and emphasizes engineering applications, striving to provide an academic and technical exchange platform for scientific researchers and engineering technicians engaged in related work, so as to promote the high-quality development of relevant disciplines in China, and serve a technical powerful nation.

Surface Technology accepts both research and review papers, and is published monthly on the 20th of each month. It is publicly issued for both China and other countries. Chinese unitary issue number: CN 50-1083/TG, international unitary issue number: ISSN 1001-3660, and postal code: 78-31.

Database index:

EI Compendex, Scopus, Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD), Chinese Core Journals, Chinese Core Journals of Science and Technology, WJCI , Annual Report for Chinese Academic Journal Impact Factors, etc.

Classified catalogue of high quality sci-tech journals by field:

Grade T2 in the field of metal materials (metallurgy and metal technology)

Grade T2 in the field of nonferrous metals

Grade T3 in the field of mechanical engineering

Chinese high level journals in the field of material surface and interface and coatings

Awards:

2017 Third National Top 100 Newspapers and Periodicals, Certificate of Outstanding S&T Journals of China 2017

Academic team:

To ensure the academic quality of the journal, the editorial department has actively invited famous scholars and experts in the industry to join the academic team with the help of big data. Now it has formed an editorial committee composed of 16 academicians of the two academies, 183 famous domestic scholars and 45 international experts, a youth editorial committee composed of 30 young experts, and a review team of more than 1,000 domestic experts.

Columns:

Fixed column - Research review

Fixed column - Corrosion and protection: Corrosion mechanism, anti-corrosion technology and process, anti-corrosion materials, etc.

Fixed column - Friction, wear and lubrication: Friction, wear and lubrication (Lubricating film, oil lubrication, lubricating additives, etc.), erosion and sealing (related to surface treatment technology)

Fixed column - Precision and ultra-precision machining: Grinding, cutting, grinding, rolling, polishing, etc.

Fixed column - Surface functionalization: Corrosion of degradable metals and alloys, surface functional modification of medical materials (metal materials, polymer materials, inorganic nonmetal materials, and composite materials), bionic functional surfaces such as extreme wetting surface (hydrophilic, hydrophobic, lipophilic, oleophobic), drag reducing surface, and controllable adhesion surface, photoelectric film, semiconductor film, energy conversion and storage film and other functional films.

Characteristic column - Laser surfacing modification

Characteristic column - Thermal spraying and cold spraying technology

Characteristic column - Surface strengthening technology

Academic indicators:

To improve the academic influence of the journal on the basis of ensuring the academic communication power, Surface Technology insists on large number of papers published, while actively planning hot topics and inviting high-quality manuscripts to improve the quality of articles. According to Web of Science, the impact factor has increased year by year.

Year

2017

2018

2019

2020

Number of papers published

508

500

506

507

Impact factor (SCI)

0.039

0.053

0.123

0.139