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Journal of Physical Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.8), WoS ESCI. Published by Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.
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ISSN 1027-4642Verify ISSN ↗2310-0052Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 208 / 248 | 16th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.8.
Journal of Physical Studies is Q4 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 208 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Physical Studies 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 16th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.186, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 15.
Journal of Physical Studies is published by Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. Its print ISSN is 1027-4642 and its online ISSN is 2310-0052.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Physical Studies has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 0.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #182 of 235 Scopus journals in Physics and Astronomy (all).
Journal of Physical Studies published 44 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 52. 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 48 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Ukraine (74%), India (6.3%) and Slovakia (3.8%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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