Surface Innovations

Aims & Scope

The material innovations on surfaces, combined with understanding and manipulation of physics and chemistry of functional surfaces and coatings, have exploded in the past decade at an incredibly rapid pace.

Superhydrophobicity, superhydrophlicity, self-cleaning, self-healing, anti-fouling, anti-bacterial, etc., have become important fundamental topics of surface science research community driven by curiosity of physics, chemistry, and biology of interaction phenomenon at surfaces and their enormous potential in practical applications.

Materials having controlled-functionality surfaces and coatings are important to the manufacturing of new products for environmental control, liquid manipulation, nanotechnological advances, biomedical engineering, pharmacy, biotechnology, and many others, and are part of the most promising technological innovations of the twenty-first century.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	3.5
2024	2.70

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.396

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	32

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	13896

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	372

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Contact angles and wettability: towards common and accurate terminology

  Citation: 435

  Authors: Abraham, Claudio, Stefano, Alidad, Jaroslaw W.

• Contact angles: history of over 200 years of open questions

  Citation: 242

  Authors: Jaroslaw W, Ludmila, Emil, Claudio, Lucyna, Abraham, Stefano

• Guidelines to measurements of reproducible contact angles using a sessile-drop technique

  Citation: 213

  Authors: Jaroslaw

• Physics and applications of superhydrophobic and superhydrophilic surfaces and coatings

  Citation: 158

  Authors: Jaroslaw, Abraham

• Superoleophobic surfaces: design criteria and recent studies

  Citation: 74

  Authors: Arun K., Joseph M., Anish

• Assessing durability of superhydrophobic surfaces

  Citation: 67

  Authors: Ileana, Ilaria, Carlo, Marco

• Progress in fabrication and applications of micro/nanostructured superhydrophobic surfaces

  Citation: 63

  Authors: Qing, Shuangshuang, Xiaoting, Ning

• Wool functionalization through AgNPs: coloration, antibacterial and wastewater treatment

  Citation: 63

  Authors: K M Faridul, Haona, Sakil, Muhammad Abu, Cao

• Diamond-like carbon thin films prepared by pulsed-DC PE-CVD for biomedical applications

  Citation: 61

  Authors: Mohammad Reza, Mohammad Javad, Mohammad Mahdi, Masoumeh, Sarah, Morteza Ganjaee, Payam, Mohammad Reza, Masoud

• The Wilhelmy method: a critical and practical review

  Citation: 55

  Authors: Claudio Della, Stefano

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