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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.6), formerly ABDC A*, WoS SCIE. Published by Royal Society Publishing.
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ISSN 1364-503XVerify ISSN ↗1471-2962Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Royal Society Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics (all) | 13 / 414 | 96th | Q1 |
| Engineering (all) | 44 / 351 | 87th | Q1 |
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 37 / 248 | 85th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–present (also 1977–1988, 1974–1975, 1969–1971, 1947, 1901), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.6.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences is Q1 in Mathematics (all) (rank 13 of 414), Q1 in Engineering (all) (rank 44 of 351) and Q1 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 37 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 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 7.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.703, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 215.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences is published by Royal Society Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1364-503X and its online ISSN is 1471-2962.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
It was rated A* in the 2010 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences has an h-index of 238 and a 2-year mean of 3.46 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #22 of 392 Scopus journals in Mathematics (all).
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences published 317 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 411. 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 95 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (20.1%), United States (18.5%) and France (9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 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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