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Journal of Physical Chemistry A is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Chemical Society.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1089-5639Verify ISSN ↗1520-5215Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Chemical Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical and Theoretical Chemistry | 95 / 194 | 51st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–present (also 1994), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.6.
Journal of Physical Chemistry A is Q2 in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (rank 95 of 194), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Physical Chemistry A 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 4.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 51st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.620, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 274.
Journal of Physical Chemistry A is published by American Chemical Society. Its print ISSN is 1089-5639 and its online ISSN is 1520-5215.
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 Chemistry A has an h-index of 287 and a 2-year mean of 2.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #78 of 191 Scopus journals in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.
Journal of Physical Chemistry A published 1,186 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 1,263. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (30.2%), United States (27.2%) and India (6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (0.1 per 1,000 papers). 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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