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Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest (Applied Physics Laboratory) is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5), WoS ESCI. Published by John Hopkins University.
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ISSN 0270-5214Verify ISSN ↗1930-0530Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Hopkins University
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 228 / 248 | 8th | Q4 |
| Engineering (all) | 327 / 351 | 6th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–2025 (also 1981–1994), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest (Applied Physics Laboratory) is Q4 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 228 of 248) and Q4 in Engineering (all) (rank 327 of 351), by CiteScore 2025.
Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest (Applied Physics Laboratory) is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 8th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.165, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 39.
Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest (Applied Physics Laboratory) is published by John Hopkins University. Its print ISSN is 0270-5214 and its online ISSN is 1930-0530.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest (Applied Physics Laboratory) has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #223 of 235 Scopus journals in Physics and Astronomy (all).
Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest (Applied Physics Laboratory) published 10 papers in 2010; its busiest recent year was 2004 with 21. 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.
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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