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Few-Body Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer-Verlag Wien.
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ISSN 0177-7963Verify ISSN ↗1432-5411Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Wien
Cost to publish: About US$2,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 130 / 243 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.3.
Few-Body Systems is Q3 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 130 of 243), by CiteScore 2025.
Few-Body Systems 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 46th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.471, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 48.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,290 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.
Few-Body Systems is published by Springer-Verlag Wien. Its print ISSN is 0177-7963 and its online ISSN is 1432-5411.
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.
Few-Body Systems has an h-index of 53 and a 2-year mean of 1.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #140 of 222 Scopus journals in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.
Few-Body Systems published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 155. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (16%), Algeria (13%) and United States (9.6%).
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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