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Computer Physics Communications is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 13.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0010-4655Verify ISSN ↗1879-2944Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$4,160 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardware and Architecture | 16 / 245 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 17 / 248 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1969–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 13.1.
Computer Physics Communications is Q1 in Hardware and Architecture (rank 16 of 245) and Q1 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 17 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Computer Physics Communications 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 13.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.564, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 232.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,160 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.
Computer Physics Communications is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0010-4655 and its online ISSN is 1879-2944.
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.
Computer Physics Communications has an h-index of 302 and a 2-year mean of 3.54 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 13.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #61 of 166 Scopus journals in Hardware and Architecture.
Computer Physics Communications published 451 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 71 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (26.1%), United States (13.5%) and Germany (6.9%).
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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