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Materials Today Physics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 16.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 2542-5293Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,160 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) | 2 / 88 | 98th | Q1 |
| Materials Science (all) | 31 / 475 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Energy (miscellaneous) | 14 / 106 | 87th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 16.7.
Materials Today Physics is Q1 in Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) (rank 2 of 88), Q1 in Materials Science (all) (rank 31 of 475) and Q1 in Energy (miscellaneous) (rank 14 of 106), by CiteScore 2025.
Materials Today 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 16.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.841, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 95.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,160 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Materials Today Physics is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its ISSN is 2542-5293.
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.
Materials Today Physics has an h-index of 99 and a 2-year mean of 7.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 16.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 87 Scopus journals in Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous).
Materials Today Physics published 356 papers in 2025. 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 91 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (61.3%), United States (6.9%) and South Korea (5.5%). 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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