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Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Heidelberg.
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ISSN 0947-8396Verify ISSN ↗1432-0630Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Heidelberg
Cost to publish: About US$3,790 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemistry (all) | 142 / 402 | 64th | Q2 |
| Materials Science (all) | 195 / 475 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.2.
Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing is Q2 in Chemistry (all) (rank 142 of 402) and Q2 in Materials Science (all) (rank 195 of 475), by CiteScore 2025.
Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing 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 5.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.474, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 172.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,790 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing is published by Springer Heidelberg. Its print ISSN is 0947-8396 and its online ISSN is 1432-0630.
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.
Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing has an h-index of 200 and a 2-year mean of 3.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #125 of 382 Scopus journals in Chemistry (all).
Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing published 1,021 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 1,128. 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (29.4%), China (17%) and Iraq (7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 70 retracted papers are recorded (2.7 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 5 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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