Journal of the Balkan Tribological Association

Journal of the Balkan Tribological Association is published by Scientific Bulgarian Communications. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Metal Alloys Wear and Properties, Tribology and Lubrication Engineering and Tribology and Wear Analysis, together about 31.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Mechanical Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Journal of the Balkan Tribological Assosiation is dedicated to the fundamental and technological research of the third principle in nature - the contacts. The journal will act as international focus for contacts between the specialists working in fundamental and practical areas of tribology. The main topics and examples of the scientific areas of interest to the Journal are: overall tribology; tribotechnics and tribomechanics; friction, lubrication, abrasive wear, boundary lubrication, adhesion, cavitation, corrosion, computer simulation, vibration phenomena, mechanical contacts in gaseous, liquid and solid phase, technological tribological processes, coatings, etc.; tribochemistry - defects in solid bodies, tribochemical emissions, triboluminescence, tribochemiluminescence, technological tribochemistry; composite materials, polymeric materials in mechanics and tribology; special materials in military and space technologies, etc.; kinetics, thermodynamics and mechanism of tribochemical processes; biotribology - biological tribology, tribophysiotherapy, tribological wear, biological tribotechnology, etc.; lubrication - solid, semi-liquid lubricants, additives for oils and lubricants, surface phenomena. wear in the presence of lubricants; lubricity of fuels; ecological tribology; the role of tribology in the sustainable development of technology: management and organisation of the production; machinery breakdown; oil monitoring; European legislation in the field of tribotechnics and lubricating oils; educational problems in tribology, lubricating oils and fuels.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Engineering, Mechanical

CAS Journal Ranking

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Database indexing

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

1LetPub · 2026-11-01

SJR 2026-06

0.15LetPub · 2026-11-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.34LetPub · 2026-11-01

h-index

12LetPub · 2026-11-01

h-index

7OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

3OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

Volume

Articles per year

88LetPub · 2026-11-01

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Average review time (community reports)

about 3 monthsLetPub · 2026-11-01

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-11-01

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

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Publisher

Scientific Bulgarian Communications

Country or region

BULGARIA

Frequency

Quarterly

ISSN

1310-4772

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub