About this journal
Aims and scope
Tribology Transactions contains experimental and theoretical papers on friction, wear, lubricants, lubrication, materials, machines and moving components, from the macro- to the nano-scale.
The papers will be of interest to academic, industrial and government researchers and technologists working in many fields, including:
Aerospace, Agriculture & Forest, Appliances, Automotive, Bearings, Biomedical Devices, Condition Monitoring, Engines, Gears, Industrial Engineering, Lubricants, Lubricant Additives, Magnetic Data Storage, Manufacturing, Marine, Materials, MEMs and NEMs, Mining, Power Generation, Metalworking Fluids, Seals, Surface Engineering and Testing and Analysis.
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor-in-Chief and, if found suitable for further consideration, are submitted for peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review in single anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.
Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 116K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 2.0 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 2.5 (2023) 5 year IF
- 3.9 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.067 (2023) SNIP
- 0.483 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 0 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 73 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 40 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 22% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Dr. Christopher DellaCorte
The University of Akron
Timken Engineered Surfaces Laboratory (TESL)
264 Wolf Ledges Parkway, Room 311b
Akron Engineering Research Center (AESC)
Akron, Ohio 44325-0406
Phone (330) 972-7713
[email protected]
Editorial Director
Rachel Fowler
STLE Headquarters
840 Busse Highway
Park Ridge, IL 60068-2376
Phone (847) 825-5536
Fax (847) 825-1456
[email protected]
www.stle.org
Production Editor
Glenn Ruse Jr.
Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
530 Walnut St., Suite 850
Philadelphia, PA 19106
[email protected]
www.tandfonline.com
Associate Editors
Mihai Arghir - Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France, [email protected]
Vasileios Bakolas - Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG, Herzogenaurach, Germany, [email protected]
Ewa Bardasz - Zual Associates in Lubrication LLC, Mentor, Ohio, [email protected]
Stephen Berkebile - U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, [email protected]
Thierry A. Blanchet - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, [email protected]
John A.R. Bomidi - Baker Hughes, The Woodlands, Texas, [email protected]
Benyekba "Ben" Bou-Said - INSA de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France, [email protected]
John Burke - Quaker Houghton, Concord Township, Ohio, [email protected]
Neil Canter - Chemical Solutions, Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, [email protected]
Azzedine Dadouche - National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, [email protected]
Michael J. Dube - NASA Engineering and Safety Center, Hampton, Virginia, [email protected]
Michael Dugger - Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, [email protected]
Kai Feng - Hunan University, Hunan Sheng, China, [email protected]
Kanao Fukuda - Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, [email protected]
Benjamin J. Gould - The Chemours Company, Newark, Delaware, [email protected]
Aaron Greco - Argonne National Lab, Argonne, Illinois, [email protected]
Christian Greiner - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany [email protected]
Hannes Grillenberger - Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co., KG, Herzogenaurach, Germany, [email protected]
Xue Han - Cummins, Inc., Columbus, Indiana, [email protected]
C. Fred Higgs, III - Rice University, Houston, Texas, [email protected]
S. Adam Howard - NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, [email protected]
Yeau-Ren Jeng - National Cheng Kung University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, [email protected]
Amir Kadiric - Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, [email protected]
Satish Kailas - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, [email protected]
Young Sup Kang - SKF USA Inc., Plymouth, Michigan, [email protected]
Khashayar Khanlari - Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, [email protected]
Harman Khare - Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington, [email protected]
Oliver Koch - Technical University Kaiserlautern, Kaiserlautern, Germany, [email protected]
Brandon Krick - Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, [email protected]
Alan O. Lebeck - Mechanical Seal Technology, Albuquerque, New Mexico, [email protected]
Peter M. Lee- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas [email protected]
Nikhil Londhe- The Timken Company, Gainesville, Florida [email protected]
Babak Lotfi- ExxonMobil Chemical Company, Baytown, Texas [email protected]
Piet Lugt - SKF Nieuwegein, the Netherlands, [email protected]
Filippo Mangolini - University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, [email protected]
Martin Marinack, Jr. - Arconic, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, [email protected]
Ashlie Martini - University of California, Merced, California, [email protected]
Masabumi Masuko - Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, [email protected]
Angelo Mazzu - University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy, [email protected]
Daniel Merk - Schaeffler Technologies AG Co. KG, Schweinfurt, Germany, [email protected]
Pradeep L. Menezes - University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada, [email protected]
Hamidreza Mohseni - Pratt & Whitney, Hartford, Connecticut, [email protected]
Guillermo Morales Espejel - SKF Research & Technology Development, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands, [email protected]
Daniel Nelias - LaMCoS INSA De Lyon, Villeurbanne, France, [email protected]
Jack Poley - Condition Monitoring International (CMI), Miami, Florida, [email protected]
Martin Priest - University of Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom, [email protected]
Bart Raeymaekers- Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA [email protected]
Keun Ryu - Hanyang University, Ansan, Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea, [email protected]
Luis A. San Andres - Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, [email protected]
Thomas Scharf - University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, [email protected]
Steve Shaffer - Shaffer Tribology Consulting, San Jose, California, [email protected]
Steven Thrush - U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC, Royal Oak, Michigan, [email protected]
Dairene Uy - Shell Global Solutions US Inc., Houston, Texas, [email protected]
Ariane Viat - Constellium, Saint-Égrève, France, ariane.viat@constellium
Fabrice Ville - LaMCoS INSA De Lyon, Villeurbanne, France, [email protected]
Kathryn J. Wahl - Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, [email protected]
Elaine S. Yamaguchi - El Cerrito, California, [email protected]
Jing Yang - Apple, Inc., Austin, Texas, [email protected]
Qi Yang - National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, [email protected]
Nicola Zani - University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy, [email protected]
Abstracting and indexing
Abstracted and/or indexed in: Applied Sciences & Technology Index; Chemical Abstracts Service Plus; Compendex; CSA – Civil Engineering Abstracts; CSA – Computer & Information Systems Abstracts; CSA – Corrosion Abstracts; CSA – Electronic & Communications Abstracts; CSA – Engineered Materials Abstracts; CSA – Mechanical Engineering Abstracts; CSA – Metals Abstracts; CSA – Solid State Abstracts; Current Contents/Engineering, Computing, & Technology; EnCompass; Fluidex; Materials Science Citation Index; Science Citation Index; Science Citation Index Expanded; and Scopus.
Open access
Tribology Transactions is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
Why choose open access?
- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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Society information
6 issues per year
Currently known as:
- Tribology Transactions (1988 - current)
Formerly known as
- A S L E Transactions (1958 - 1987)
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