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Lecture Notes in Physics is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1). Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 0075-8450Verify ISSN ↗1616-6361Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) | 71 / 88 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present (also 2001, 1995, 1992, 1988, 1981–1985), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.
Lecture Notes in Physics is Q4 in Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) (rank 71 of 88), by CiteScore 2025.
Lecture Notes in Physics is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q4, 19th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.212, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 75.
Lecture Notes in Physics is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0075-8450 and its online ISSN is 1616-6361.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Lecture Notes in Physics has an h-index of 198 and a 2-year mean of 1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #56 of 87 Scopus journals in Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous).
Lecture Notes in Physics published 87 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 207. 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.
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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