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Journal of Applied Spectroscopy is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer GmbH & Co, Auslieferungs-Gesellschaf.
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ISSN 0021-9037Verify ISSN ↗1573-8647Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer GmbH & Co, Auslieferungs-Gesellschaf
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condensed Matter Physics | 362 / 446 | 18th | Q4 |
| Spectroscopy | 69 / 81 | 15th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1965–1999 (also 2003–present), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.4.
Journal of Applied Spectroscopy is Q4 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 362 of 446) and Q4 in Spectroscopy (rank 69 of 81), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Applied Spectroscopy 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 18th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.188, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 36.
Journal of Applied Spectroscopy is published by Springer GmbH & Co, Auslieferungs-Gesellschaf. Its print ISSN is 0021-9037 and its online ISSN is 1573-8647.
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.
Journal of Applied Spectroscopy has an h-index of 41 and a 2-year mean of 1.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #321 of 425 Scopus journals in Condensed Matter Physics.
Journal of Applied Spectroscopy published 185 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 190. 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 92 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Belarus (27.5%), Russia (19.4%) and China (18.5%).
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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