Network:

To keep up with the trend of internationalized and networked scientific journals, and to speed up the promotion of scientific and technological achievements, Surface Technology opened the formal website in October 2013, providing Open Access free of charge, further extending the academic influence of the journal. Since the formal opening of the website, the accumulated visits have exceeded 650,000 times, the current daily visits are 1,000 times. Meanwhile, the page view and downloads are continuously increasing. Up to July 30, 2015, the views and the downloads of all the papers have reached 13,683 times and 11,970 times respectively. The highest view and download numbers are 1812 times and 1580 times respectively. This indicates that the journal website has gained certain influence and the papers on the journal have also been well publicized.

Moreover, the website collects professional surface treatment related information, sources including relative colleges and universities, associations, international organizations, research institutes, international journals, Chinese journals, laws and regulations, web resource, etc. This website also releases timely industry news, meeting and training information and so on for the convenience of experts in the field of surface treatment.