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Philosophical Magazine Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3.2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0950-0839Verify ISSN ↗1362-3036Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condensed Matter Physics | 260 / 446 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present (also 1981), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.2.
Philosophical Magazine Letters is Q3 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 260 of 446), by CiteScore 2025.
Philosophical Magazine Letters 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 41st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.363, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 76.
Philosophical Magazine Letters is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0950-0839 and its online ISSN is 1362-3036.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Philosophical Magazine Letters has an h-index of 87 and a 2-year mean of 3.77 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #108 of 425 Scopus journals in Condensed Matter Physics.
Philosophical Magazine Letters published 11 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 66. 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 (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (39.6%), India (19.2%) and Japan (10.2%).
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.
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