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Applied Physics Reviews is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 16.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Institute of Physics.
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ISSN 1931-9401Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 13 / 248 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 16.3.
Applied Physics Reviews is Q1 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 13 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Applied Physics Reviews 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 16.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.540, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 132.
Applied Physics Reviews is published by American Institute of Physics. Its ISSN is 1931-9401.
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 Reviews has an h-index of 148 and a 2-year mean of 11.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 16.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #6 of 235 Scopus journals in Physics and Astronomy (all).
Applied Physics Reviews published 240 papers in 2025. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (44.9%), United States (12.8%) and India (5.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (2.7 per 1,000 papers). 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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