Industrial Lubrication and Tribology

Industrial Lubrication and Tribology is a peer-reviewed engineering journal published by Emerald Publishing that covers lubricants, friction and wear as they occur in working machinery.《工业润滑与摩擦学》是 Emerald Publishing 出版的同行评审工程期刊，覆盖实际运转机械中的润滑剂与摩擦磨损问题。

First published in 1948, it carries applied tribology research alongside plant-floor experience, and its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9.该刊 1948 年创刊，把应用摩擦学研究与工厂一线经验放在同一本刊物里，2025 年期刊影响因子为 1.9。

Scope

• The remit is deliberately wide: the materials and techniques employed in tribology, organised around the three disciplines of lubrication, wear and friction.刊物的收稿范围有意放宽，围绕润滑、磨损与摩擦这三个分支来组织摩擦学所用的材料与技术。
• Advanced lubricants form one strand, with ionic liquids, green lubrication and solid lubricants tied to layered two-dimensional materials named in the current aims statement.先进润滑剂是其中一条主线，现行宗旨明确列出离子液体、绿色润滑以及层状二维材料相关的固体润滑剂。
• Formulation papers run from base stock selection through anti-wear and extreme-pressure additive packages to friction modifiers and viscosity index improvers.配方类论文从基础油选择一路延伸到抗磨与极压添加剂体系、摩擦改进剂以及黏度指数改进剂。
• Mineral and synthetic fluids are compared on oxidation stability, volatility and film-forming behaviour, and the choice between them is argued from operating temperature and load.矿物油与合成油常在氧化安定性、挥发性和成膜能力上作比较，取舍依据的是工作温度与载荷。
• Biodegradable esters, vegetable oil derivatives and water-based fluids fall under sustainable lubrication, where performance is weighed against environmental persistence.可生物降解酯类、植物油衍生物与水基液归入可持续润滑，其性能要与环境残留特性一并权衡。
• Boundary and mixed lubrication receive steady attention, because most industrial contacts spend their working life in these regimes instead of under a full fluid film.边界润滑与混合润滑持续受到关注，多数工业接触副的实际工况正落在这一区间，全膜润滑反而是少数。
• Film thickness prediction, the Stribeck curve and the shift from mixed to hydrodynamic contact are studied on test rigs and through Reynolds-equation or thermal elastohydrodynamic models.油膜厚度预测、斯特里贝克曲线以及混合润滑向流体动压接触的转变，既在试验台上测量，也用雷诺方程与热弹流模型求解。
• Wear is separated into adhesive and abrasive families, with fatigue spalling and fretting damage treated as distinct failure paths rather than variations on one theme.磨损先按黏着与磨粒两大类划分，疲劳剥落和微动损伤作为独立的失效路径讨论，不当作同一回事的变体。
• Surface engineering supplies the countermeasures, among them laser cladding, plasma nitriding, hard coatings and laser texturing of sliding faces.对策多半来自表面工程，其中激光熔覆与等离子渗氮、硬质涂层和滑面的激光织构用得最多。
• Bearings, seals and gears carry most of the application-side content, since these components turn a lubrication problem into a measurable life or efficiency figure.轴承、密封与齿轮承担了大部分应用类稿件，这些部件能把润滑问题折算成可测量的寿命或效率数字。
• Rolling bearing life and grease replenishment intervals, seal leakage and gear scuffing are recurring subjects, usually reported with the machine or plant where the failure appeared.滚动轴承寿命与润滑脂补充周期、密封泄漏和齿轮胶合都是常见题目，稿件往往连同失效所在的设备或车间一并交代。
• Test methods include pin-on-disc and four-ball machines, reciprocating rigs, and bench tests built around a specific machine element instead of a standard specimen.试验方法包括销盘试验、四球机与往复试验台，也有围绕具体机械元件搭建的台架，并不局限于标准试样。
• Condition monitoring is treated as a diagnostic route, with wear debris morphology and elemental spectroscopy, particle counting and viscosity drift read as early warnings of a failing contact.状态监测被当作诊断途径，磨屑形貌与元素光谱、颗粒计数和黏度漂移都读作接触副失效的早期信号。
• Numerical work is welcome where it explains a measured effect, such as finite element contact stress, computational fluid dynamics of lubricant supply, or molecular dynamics of additive films.数值工作只要能够解释实测现象就在收录之列，例如接触应力的有限元计算、供油过程的流体仿真以及添加剂膜的分子动力学模拟。
• Materials selection closes the loop, and a fair number of papers end with a maintenance recommendation a plant can act on without buying new tooling.材料选择把这一圈合上，不少论文的结论落在一条维护建议上，工厂无需添置新工装即可执行。

History

• The first volume appeared in 1948 under the name Scientific Lubrication, when lubrication was still handled by the trade press as a maintenance chore and had not yet been claimed as a research field.首卷在 1948 年以《Scientific Lubrication》之名问世，当时的行业报刊仍把润滑当作维修杂务，尚未视作独立的研究领域。
• That name lasted eighteen volumes. From volume 19 in 1967 the journal has been Industrial Lubrication and Tribology, and the volume count carries straight across the change, with twelve issues a year at the time of the switch.这个刊名用了十八卷，自 1967 年第 19 卷起改为《工业润滑与摩擦学》，卷号越过改名处直接续下去，改名前后的年份每年出 12 期。
• Volume numbering runs without a break to volume 77, which closed in 2025, and volume 78 is the one now appearing.卷号连续不断地排到第 77 卷，该卷在 2025 年出齐，眼下在出的是第 78 卷。
• The publishing house behind the title was MCB University Press of Bradford, which traded under the Emerald name from 2001, and the journal record at Crossref still carries the legacy label Emerald (MCB UP).刊物背后的出版方是位于布拉德福德的 MCB University Press，2001 年起以 Emerald 名义经营，Crossref 的刊记录里仍保留 Emerald (MCB UP) 这一旧标识。
• Issue counts trace the change in rhythm. Twelve issues a year were normal in the late 1960s, six followed from 1972 through 2017, and volume 71 in 2019 was the first to carry ten.卷期数据里能看出节奏之变，20 世纪 60 年代末每年出 12 期，1972 年至 2017 年按双月刊出 6 期，2019 年的第 71 卷起改为每年 10 期。
• Ten issues a year is the present pattern, and some volumes merge the July and August numbers into one, as happened in 2024.目前每年出 10 期，个别年份把 7 月号与 8 月号合成一期，2024 年即是如此。
• Indexing in Science Citation Index Expanded puts the title in the JCR category for mechanical engineering, where the 2025 edition ranks it Q3 at 116 of 184 journals.该刊被 Science Citation Index Expanded 收录，在 JCR 的机械工程类目里，2025 年版列为 Q3，184 种期刊中排第 116 位。
• The impact factor moved from 1.297 in 2021 to 1.442 in 2022, 1.5 in 2023, 1.8 in 2024 and 1.9 in 2025, the last figure matching the five-year value.影响因子从 2021 年的 1.297 升到 2022 年的 1.442，2023 年为 1.5，2024 年为 1.8，2025 年为 1.9，与五年影响因子持平。
• A 2025 Journal Citation Indicator of 0.42 and a percentile of 37.2 show that the rise in JIF has not moved the title out of the third quartile.2025 年的期刊引证指标为 0.42，百分位 37.2，影响因子的抬升并未把刊物带出第三四分位。
• Output has stayed near 160 articles a year against 164 citable items, with 2,832 citations counted in the 2025 release.年发文量稳定在 160 篇上下，可引文献 164 篇，2025 年版统计的总被引为 2832 次。
• A cited half-life of 5.7 years points to a back catalogue that keeps being read, which is long for an application-led engineering title.被引半衰期 5.7 年，说明过刊仍在被持续引用，这在应用导向的工程刊物里算长的。
• Gold open access covers 0.44 percent of output, so the journal remains a subscription title with an optional OA route.金色开放获取只占 0.44%，刊物仍以订阅制为主，开放获取属于可选项。
• Articles are distributed through Emerald Insight and carry DOIs registered with Crossref, which keeps the run findable at item level back to 1948, the earliest volumes filed under the predecessor's own serial number, 0371-0947.文章经 Emerald Insight 发行并带有 Crossref 注册的 DOI，逐篇记录可追到 1948 年，最早那些卷册挂在旧刊自己的刊号 0371-0947 之下。

Editors

• Peer review is double blind, and the aims statement describes it as a process run by the editor together with other subject experts.该刊采用双盲评审，宗旨页把它描述为由编辑会同其他学科专家执行的流程。
• Author and referee both stay anonymous, which counts in a field where the number of active tribology groups is small and rival laboratories know each other's work.作者与审稿人双方都不具名，这在活跃课题组数量有限的摩擦学界颇为要紧，同行对彼此的工作相当熟悉。
• Referees weigh industrial relevance next to novelty, and the declared audience of industry professionals explains the emphasis.审稿人除了看新颖性，也看工业相关性，刊物声明的读者群就是工业界从业者。
• Research papers, technical papers and review articles fill most of each issue, with shorter technical notes accepted where a result can be stated in a few pages.研究论文、技术论文与综述构成每期主体，结果能在数页内讲清的稿件可按短篇技术札记处理。
• Case studies from plants and from OEM test benches are accepted on the same footing as laboratory work, provided the operating conditions are documented.来自工厂与整机厂试验台的案例研究和实验室工作同等对待，前提是把工况交代清楚。
• The practical question put at review is whether a result helps a maintenance or design team cut friction-related downtime.评审时的一条实用尺子，是看结果能否帮维护或设计团队减少摩擦导致的停机。
• Manuscripts follow the publisher's house structure, with a segmented abstract and a separate practical implications section, which suits readers who only want to know what to change on site.稿件按出版方的统一结构撰写，摘要分段陈述，另设实践意义一节，方便只想知道现场该改什么的读者。
• Submission runs through the publisher's online editorial system, where authors declare originality and any earlier presentation of the work, and similarity screening happens before a manuscript reaches referees.投稿经出版方的在线编辑系统提交，作者须声明原创性以及论文此前的宣读或发表情况，相似度筛查在送审之前完成。
• Decision letters travel with referee reports, and revision rounds tend to be short because work that can be verified on a rig is preferred to argument carried on at length.编辑决定随审稿意见一并返回，修回轮次通常不多，能在试验台上验证的结果比长篇论证更受欢迎。