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Chinese Physics Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by IOP Publishing Ltd..
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ISSN 0256-307XVerify ISSN ↗1741-3540Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: IOP Publishing Ltd.
Cost to publish: About US$2,500 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 47 / 248 | 81st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1984–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.2.
Chinese Physics Letters is Q1 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 47 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Chinese Physics Letters 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 6.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.998, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 85.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,500 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.
Chinese Physics Letters is published by IOP Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0256-307X and its online ISSN is 1741-3540.
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.
Chinese Physics Letters has an h-index of 91 and a 2-year mean of 4.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #33 of 235 Scopus journals in Physics and Astronomy (all).
Chinese Physics Letters published 350 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 405. 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 China (86.9%), Japan (2.1%) and United States (1.7%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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