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Communications in Theoretical Physics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Institute of Physics.
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ISSN 0253-6102Verify ISSN ↗1572-9494Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institute of Physics
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) | 20 / 88 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.
Communications in Theoretical Physics is Q1 in Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) (rank 20 of 88), by CiteScore 2025.
Communications in Theoretical 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 5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.422, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 71.
Communications in Theoretical Physics is published by Institute of Physics. Its print ISSN is 0253-6102 and its online ISSN is 1572-9494.
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.
Communications in Theoretical Physics has an h-index of 74 and a 2-year mean of 2.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #23 of 87 Scopus journals in Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous).
Communications in Theoretical Physics published 205 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 286. 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 (74.4%), India (2.9%) and Saudi Arabia (2.4%). 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 (0.2 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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