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Comprehensive Physiology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 2040-4603Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physiology | 25 / 196 | 87th | Q1 |
| Physiology (medical) | 18 / 117 | 85th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.6.
Comprehensive Physiology is Q1 in Physiology (rank 25 of 196) and Q1 in Physiology (medical) (rank 18 of 117), by CiteScore 2025.
Comprehensive Physiology 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 8.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.061, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 140.
Comprehensive Physiology is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its ISSN is 2040-4603.
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.
Comprehensive Physiology has an h-index of 187 and a 2-year mean of 2.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #81 of 194 Scopus journals in Physiology.
Comprehensive Physiology published 94 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 121. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (27.3%), United States (20%) and India (14.5%).
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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