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Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Institute of Physics.
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ISSN 0047-2689Verify ISSN ↗1529-7845Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 44 / 248 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Chemistry (all) | 111 / 402 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Physical and Theoretical Chemistry | 58 / 194 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1972–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.7.
Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data is Q1 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 44 of 248), Q2 in Chemistry (all) (rank 111 of 402) and Q2 in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (rank 58 of 194), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data 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 6.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.682, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 109.
Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data is published by American Institute of Physics. Its print ISSN is 0047-2689 and its online ISSN is 1529-7845.
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 Physical and Chemical Reference Data has an h-index of 226 and a 2-year mean of 3.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #64 of 235 Scopus journals in Physics and Astronomy (all).
Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 26. 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 90 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (34.6%), China (8.1%) and Spain (7.5%).
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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