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Modern Physics Letters B is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by World Scientific.
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ISSN 0217-9849Verify ISSN ↗1793-6640Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: World Scientific
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Statistical and Nonlinear Physics | 16 / 63 | 75th | Q1 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 163 / 446 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.8.
Modern Physics Letters B is Q1 in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (rank 16 of 63) and Q2 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 163 of 446), by CiteScore 2025.
Modern Physics Letters B 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.362, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 63.
Modern Physics Letters B is published by World Scientific. Its print ISSN is 0217-9849 and its online ISSN is 1793-6640.
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.
Modern Physics Letters B has an h-index of 71 and a 2-year mean of 6.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 60 Scopus journals in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.
Modern Physics Letters B published 224 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 593. 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 71 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (32%), Saudi Arabia (14.6%) and India (11.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 15 retracted papers are recorded (1.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 4 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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