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Living Reviews in Solar Physics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 51), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Springer International Publishing AG.
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ISSN 1614-4961Verify ISSN ↗2367-3648Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Space and Planetary Science | 2 / 105 | 98th | Q1 |
| Astronomy and Astrophysics | 2 / 97 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–2025, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 51.
Living Reviews in Solar Physics is Q1 in Space and Planetary Science (rank 2 of 105) and Q1 in Astronomy and Astrophysics (rank 2 of 97), by CiteScore 2025.
Living Reviews in Solar Physics 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 51, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 8.871, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 79.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Living Reviews in Solar Physics is published by Springer International Publishing AG. Its print ISSN is 1614-4961 and its online ISSN is 2367-3648.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Living Reviews in Solar Physics has an h-index of 81 and a 2-year mean of 29.33 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 51, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 99 Scopus journals in Space and Planetary Science.
Living Reviews in Solar Physics published 4 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 7. 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 17 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (20%), Germany (19%) and India (11.8%).
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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