Tribology Letters
Last updated ISSN 1023-8883
Tribology Letters is published by Springer Science+Business Media in engineering. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,990.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Tribology Letters concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions
- Lubricants and Their Additives
- Tribology and Wear Analysis
- Metal and Thin Film Mechanics
- Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications
- Tribology and Lubrication Engineering
- Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research
- Gear and Bearing Dynamics Analysis
- Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis
- Advanced materials and composites
Key facts
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1023-8883, 1573-2711 |
| Subject area | Engineering |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,990 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 4,037 |
| Publishing since | 1995 |
| Journal website | www.springer.com/journal/11249 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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