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European Physical Journal E is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer New York.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1292-8941Verify ISSN ↗1292-895XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer New York
Cost to publish: About US$3,153 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemistry (all) | 185 / 402 | 54th | Q2 |
| Surfaces and Interfaces | 31 / 63 | 51st | Q2 |
| Materials Science (all) | 240 / 475 | 49th | Q3 |
| Biophysics | 81 / 155 | 48th | Q3 |
| Biotechnology | 172 / 325 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.
European Physical Journal E is Q2 in Chemistry (all) (rank 185 of 402), Q2 in Surfaces and Interfaces (rank 31 of 63) and Q3 in Materials Science (all) (rank 240 of 475), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
European Physical Journal E 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 4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 54th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.411, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 106.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,153 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.
European Physical Journal E is published by Springer New York. Its print ISSN is 1292-8941 and its online ISSN is 1292-895X.
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.
European Physical Journal E has an h-index of 116 and a 2-year mean of 2.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #168 of 382 Scopus journals in Chemistry (all).
European Physical Journal E published 80 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 162. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from France (17.9%), Germany (17.4%) and India (11.3%).
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.
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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