Wear
Last updated ISSN 0043-1648
Wear is published by Elsevier BV in engineering. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $5,394.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Wear concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Tribology and Wear Analysis
- Metal and Thin Film Mechanics
- Metal Alloys Wear and Properties
- Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis
- Lubricants and Their Additives
- Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions
- Tribology and Lubrication Engineering
- Advanced materials and composites
- Gear and Bearing Dynamics Analysis
- Advanced machining processes and optimization
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0043-1648, 1873-2577 |
| Subject area | Engineering |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $5,394 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 24,236 |
| Publishing since | 1957 |
| Journal website | www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_hom |
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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