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Particle and Particle Systems Characterization is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-VCH Verlag.
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ISSN 0934-0866Verify ISSN ↗1521-4117Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag
Cost to publish: About US$4,360 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condensed Matter Physics | 134 / 446 | 70th | Q2 |
| Chemistry (all) | 132 / 402 | 67th | Q2 |
| Materials Science (all) | 176 / 475 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1984–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.6.
Particle and Particle Systems Characterization is Q2 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 134 of 446), Q2 in Chemistry (all) (rank 132 of 402) and Q2 in Materials Science (all) (rank 176 of 475), by CiteScore 2025.
Particle and Particle Systems Characterization 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 5.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.584, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 75.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,360 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.
Particle and Particle Systems Characterization is published by Wiley-VCH Verlag. Its print ISSN is 0934-0866 and its online ISSN is 1521-4117.
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.
Particle and Particle Systems Characterization has an h-index of 83 and a 2-year mean of 2.66 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #173 of 425 Scopus journals in Condensed Matter Physics.
Particle and Particle Systems Characterization published 88 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 216. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (25.7%), China (19.4%) and Germany (9.7%).
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 2 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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