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American Journal of Physics is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Association of Physics Teachers.
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ISSN 0002-9505Verify ISSN ↗1943-2909Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Association of Physics Teachers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 164 / 248 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1991, 1940–1989), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.7.
American Journal of Physics is Q3 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 164 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
American Journal of Physics is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 1.7, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 34th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.349, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 120.
American Journal of Physics is published by American Association of Physics Teachers. Its print ISSN is 0002-9505 and its online ISSN is 1943-2909.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Journal of Physics has an h-index of 316 and a 2-year mean of 0.88 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #154 of 235 Scopus journals in Physics and Astronomy (all).
American Journal of Physics published 146 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 188. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 89 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (40.7%), Italy (7.1%) and Spain (5.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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