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Philosophical Magazine is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1478-6435Verify ISSN ↗1478-6443Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condensed Matter Physics | 273 / 446 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.9.
Philosophical Magazine is Q3 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 273 of 446), by CiteScore 2025.
Philosophical Magazine 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 2.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 38th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.317, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 136.
Philosophical Magazine is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1478-6435 and its online ISSN is 1478-6443.
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.
Philosophical Magazine has an h-index of 123 and a 2-year mean of 1.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #312 of 425 Scopus journals in Condensed Matter Physics.
Philosophical Magazine published 113 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 212. 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 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (16.7%), India (15.1%) and United States (7.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 per 1,000 papers). 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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