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Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0031-6768Verify ISSN ↗1432-2013Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$4,390 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physiology (medical) | 29 / 117 | 75th | Q1 |
| Physiology | 57 / 196 | 71st | Q2 |
| Clinical Biochemistry | 41 / 124 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1968–present (also 1950–1959), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.3.
Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology is Q1 in Physiology (medical) (rank 29 of 117), Q2 in Physiology (rank 57 of 196) and Q2 in Clinical Biochemistry (rank 41 of 124), by CiteScore 2025.
Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology 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 6.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.066, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 153.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,390 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.
Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0031-6768 and its online ISSN is 1432-2013.
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.
Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology has an h-index of 220 and a 2-year mean of 5.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #10 of 117 Scopus journals in Physiology (medical).
Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology published 89 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 167. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from Germany (21.3%), United States (9.8%) and Brazil (9.5%).
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.
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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