Tribology - Materials Surfaces & Interfaces deals with what happens where two solids meet, and it takes in friction, wear and lubrication as three faces of one problem.《Tribology - Materials Surfaces & Interfaces》管的是两块固体相遇之处发生的事，摩擦、磨损与润滑在它这里是同一个问题的三面。
The materials half of the title is not decoration. Papers on coatings, surface treatments and the microstructure of a worn layer carry as much of the journal as papers on lubricant chemistry.刊名里「材料」那一半不是装饰。涂层、表面处理与磨损层显微组织方面的稿子，与润滑剂化学的稿子占一样多的篇幅。
Coatings and thin films are the largest single subject, and the journal's citation category is coatings and films rather than mechanical engineering.涂层与薄膜是最大的一块，这份刊在引文报告里归的也是涂层与薄膜，不归机械工程。
Lubrication is treated at both ends. A paper may work on the chemistry of an additive, or on how a film of given thickness behaves in a bearing running at speed.润滑两头都做。一篇稿子可以在添加剂的化学上着力，也可以看一定厚度的油膜在高速运转的轴承里如何表现。
Surface engineering sits between the material and the contact. Texturing, shot peening, laser treatment and thermochemical diffusion all appear as ways of changing what the surface does under load.表面工程夹在材料与接触之间。织构、喷丸、激光处理与热化学渗扩，都以改变承载时表面行为的办法出现。
Testing is part of the subject rather than a preliminary. Tribometers, scratch tests, fretting rigs and bench tests that imitate a real machine are described in enough detail to be rebuilt.试验本身就是题目，不是开场白。摩擦磨损试验机、划痕试验、微动装置与模仿真机的台架试验，写得细到可以照样搭一套。
Modelling has grown into a subject of its own, from contact mechanics through thermal effects in a sliding contact to molecular dynamics of a boundary film.建模长成了独立的一块，从接触力学，经滑动接触中的热效应，一直到边界膜的分子动力学。
Industrial application is welcome. Bearings, gears, engines, cutting tools and forming dies are regular subjects, and a paper is expected to say what machine it is for.工业应用是欢迎的。轴承、齿轮、发动机、刀具与成形模具都是常题，稿子要说清自己是为哪种机器写的。
There is room for the awkward cases as well, such as fretting in a joint that cannot be lubricated and wear in a component that cannot be taken out of service.难办的情形也有位置，比如无法润滑的接合面上的微动，以及不能停机检修的部件里的磨损。
Biomedical tribology appears from time to time, mostly on hip and knee replacements where a wear rate is a clinical outcome rather than a laboratory number.生物医学摩擦学不时出现，多在髋与膝关节置换上，那里磨损率是临床结局，并非实验室里的一个数。
The journal publishes themed issues as well as general ones. Recent themes took in sustainable lubrication and the tribology of manufacturing.除常规期之外，这份刊也出主题期。近期的主题有可持续润滑，以及制造过程中的摩擦学。
Four issues a year carry it, and a volume is thin by design. Recent volumes have held between 17 and 34 papers.一年四期，每卷按设计就不厚。近几卷在 17 到 34 篇之间。
Papers carry a DOI at article level, and the archive is complete in Crossref from volume 12 of 2018 onward.论文按篇给 DOI，2018 年第 12 卷以来的存档在 Crossref 里是齐的。
The title names three subjects on purpose. A paper may start from the material, from the surface it presents, or from the interface where the two meet, and the editors take any of the three as a way in.刊名并列三个词是有意的。稿子可以从材料起头，可以从材料露出的表面起头，也可以从两者相接的界面起头，编辑三条路都认。
History
Volume 1 appeared in 2007, and its opening editorial was signed by Anne Neville, then at Leeds, who set the scope the journal still follows.第 1 卷出在 2007 年，开卷社论由当时在利兹的 Anne Neville 署名，她定下的范围沿用至今。
The journal was launched under the Maney imprint, a publisher that built a list of materials-science titles for learned societies.这份刊创刊时在 Maney 的出版印记之下，那家出版社替学会做过一批材料科学刊。
The publisher is now SAGE, and the current articles carry the 10.1177 prefix that goes with it rather than the prefix used for the archive.出版方如今是 SAGE，现行文章的 DOI 前缀是与之相配的 10.1177，不再是存档那批所用的前缀。
Four issues a year have been the pattern since the first volume, without a change of rhythm even in the years when ownership moved.一年四期自第 1 卷起没有变过，连出版权易手的那些年也没有改节奏。
Volume 20 carries 2026 and has three numbers out, so the run has reached twenty volumes in nineteen years.第 20 卷对应 2026 年，已出三期，十九年间走到了第二十卷。
Output has been small and steady, between 17 and 34 papers a volume, with the peak at volume 16 in 2021 when the journal took in more special-issue material than usual.产量小而稳，每卷 17 到 34 篇，高点在第 16 卷，那一卷收的专题材料比平常多。
The Crossref deposit holds 537 records, which covers the whole archive from volume 12 of 2018 onward at article level.Crossref 的存缴有 537 条记录，2018 年第 12 卷以来各卷都细到篇。
The impact factor was 1.6 in 2023, 1.7 in 2024 and 2.4 in 2025, so the rise came late but came all at once.影响因子 2023 年是 1.6，2024 年 1.7，2025 年 2.4，涨得晚，可一涨就是一截。
The five-year figure of 1.7 sits well below the two-year figure of 2.4, which means the recent papers are carrying the average and the older ones are not helping.五年影响因子 1.7 明显低于两年值的 2.4，说明撑住均值的是近期论文，旧论文帮不上忙。
Total citations are 529 and the cited half-life is 6.3 years, both modest numbers that fit a specialist journal with a small readership and a long memory.总被引 529 次，引用半衰期 6.3 年，两个数字都不大，与一份读者少而记性长的专业刊相称。
The Journal Citation Indicator is 0.32. The title sits in Q3 of Materials Science, Coatings and Films at 15 of 25, with a percentile of 42.期刊引文指标 0.32。它在材料科学涂层与薄膜门类里列 Q3，25 种刊中排第 15 位，百分位 42。
The title is in the Emerging Sources Citation Index and not in the science edition, so it has no quartile in the wider materials lists.这个刊名进的是新兴来源引文索引，不在科学版正编里，因此更宽的材料类榜单上查不到它的分区。
Gold open access is 9.46 per cent of the content. The journal is a subscription title, and the institutional route is the ordinary one for a reader.金色开放获取占全部内容的百分之九点四六。这份刊是订阅刊，读者通常走机构那条路。
There is no record for the title in the National Library of Medicine catalogue, which is unsurprising for a journal about bearings and does mean it will not appear in a medical search.国家医学图书馆的编目里没有这个刊名，对一份讲轴承的刊来说并不奇怪，也意味着医学检索里搜不到它。
Editors
Anne Neville opened the journal in 2007 with an editorial, and by then her work on wear and on the surfaces that resist it was already the reference point for the field in Britain.Anne Neville 在 2007 年用一篇社论开了这份刊，那时她在磨损与抗磨表面上的工作已经是英国同行的参照点。
A group editorial in volume 8 of 2014 was signed by Jens Hardell, Andreas Almqvist, Braham Prakash, Neville and Tomasz Liskiewicz, which shows the board working as a panel rather than as a single voice.2014 年第 8 卷的一篇集体社论由 Jens Hardell、Andreas Almqvist、Braham Prakash、Neville 与 Tomasz Liskiewicz 联署，看得出编委是按合议行事，不由一个人发声。
The editorship passed to Roger Lewis of Sheffield, whose editorial opened volume 15 in 2021 and set out what he wanted the journal to cover.主编之位后来交给谢菲尔德的 Roger Lewis，他的社论开了 2021 年的第 15 卷，讲清他希望这份刊覆盖什么。
Tomasz Liskiewicz signed the editorial that opened volume 16 in 2022, and the editorial voice has been his since that number.开 2022 年第 16 卷的那篇社论由 Tomasz Liskiewicz 署名，从那一期起刊物的编辑声音出自他。
Special issues are edited by guests. Shubrajit Bhaumik put together the issue on sustainable lubrication, and Thawhid Khan the one on manufacturing.专号由客座编辑主持。SRM 学院的 Shubrajit Bhaumik 编了可持续润滑那一期，Thawhid Khan 编了制造那一期。
Both of those themes point at the same industrial problem, which is that a lubricant and a machining process are now judged on what they leave behind as well as on what they achieve.两个主题指向同一个工业难题，润滑剂与加工工艺如今既按做出什么来评，也按留下什么来评。
The board is small enough to meet, and the editors write their own editorials rather than delegating them to an editorial office.编委会小到能开会，社论由编辑自己写，不交给编辑办公室代笔。
Authors are asked to name the application in the abstract. A paper on a coating that does not say which contact it is meant for is sent back before review.作者被要求在摘要里点名用途。一篇讲涂层的稿子若不说清为哪种接触面而做，送审之前就会被退回。
Reviewers come from the same pool as the authors, which in a field this narrow means most active tribologists have refereed for the journal at some point.审稿人与作者出自同一批人，领域窄到这个程度，多数活跃的摩擦学研究者都在某个时候替这份刊审过稿。