Journal Information


Tribology and Materials is an open access peer reviewed international scientific journal, established in 2022. It publishes original experimental and theoretical studies and review articles in all aspects of tribology and materials science and engineering. The journal does not charge any manuscript submission, processing or publishing fees.

Aims and Scope: The aim of the Tribology and Materials journal is to facilitate the global exchange of up-to-date information among researchers in relevant fields through the publication of high-quality papers on all aspects of tribology and materials research and application. The scope of the journal includes: Friction; Wear; Surface engineering; Coatings and coating tribology; Surface and materials characterisation; Metals and alloys; Ceramics; Polymers; Composites; Biomimetic materials; Corrosion; Lubricants and lubrication; Design and maintenance; Manufacturing processes and materials; Transportation engineering; Nanotribology and nanomaterials.

Peer review and plagiarism: Peer review is of single blind type (the author does not know the identity of the reviewer), and all submitted papers are checked for plagiarism with Plagiarism Checker X anti-plagiarism software, before peer review.

Copyright policy: Authors retain the copyright of the published papers. When the manuscript has been accepted for publication, each corresponding author must sign a statement with agreement form and send the signed form, in electronic format, to the Editor, together with the final version of the paper. This enables the publisher to have the rights to publish the paper with a CC license and to disseminate the paper and journal, as wide as possible.

Archiving: Electronic backup and preservation of access to the journal content are provided by archiving in the Digital repository of the National Library of Serbia.

Periodicity and language: Tribology and Materials is published quarterly (4 issues per year) and all papers are published in the English language.

Publisher: Balkan Scientific Centre, Belgrade, Serbia

ISSN: 2812-9717 (online)

Open access policy: Tribology and Materials is an open access journal which means that the content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. All papers are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which allows users to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for non-commercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator.