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Medical Physics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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ISSN 0094-2405Verify ISSN ↗2473-4209Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,360 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging | 59 / 361 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Biophysics | 42 / 155 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1974–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.
Medical Physics is Q1 in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (rank 59 of 361) and Q2 in Biophysics (rank 42 of 155), by CiteScore 2025.
Medical 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 6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.949, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 229.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,360 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.
Medical Physics is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0094-2405 and its online ISSN is 2473-4209.
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.
Medical Physics has an h-index of 270 and a 2-year mean of 2.81 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #67 of 346 Scopus journals in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.
Medical Physics published 807 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (43.5%), China (14.8%) and South Korea (7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.1 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 3 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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