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Journal of the Physical Society of Japan is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by The Physical Society of Japan.
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ISSN 0031-9015Verify ISSN ↗1347-4073Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: The Physical Society of Japan
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 95 / 248 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1946–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.7.
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan is Q2 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 95 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.650, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 151.
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan is published by The Physical Society of Japan. Its print ISSN is 0031-9015 and its online ISSN is 1347-4073.
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 the Physical Society of Japan has an h-index of 239 and a 2-year mean of 1.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #100 of 235 Scopus journals in Physics and Astronomy (all).
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan published 300 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 512. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Japan (88.6%), China (2.4%) and United States (1.7%). 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. 6 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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