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Fortschritte der Physik is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-VCH Verlag.
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ISSN 0015-8208Verify ISSN ↗1521-3978Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag
Cost to publish: About US$3,460 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 24 / 248 | 90th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1953–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.4.
Fortschritte der Physik is Q1 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 24 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Fortschritte der Physik 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 10.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.192, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 78.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,460 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.
Fortschritte der Physik is published by Wiley-VCH Verlag. Its print ISSN is 0015-8208 and its online ISSN is 1521-3978.
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.
Fortschritte der Physik has an h-index of 97 and a 2-year mean of 3.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #51 of 235 Scopus journals in Physics and Astronomy (all).
Fortschritte der Physik published 92 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 106. 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 India (15.2%), Chile (10.1%) and China (9.1%).
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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