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Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.7), formerly ABDC A, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0378-4371Verify ISSN ↗1873-2119Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,550 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Statistics and Probability | 25 / 303 | 91st | Q1 |
| Statistical and Nonlinear Physics | 10 / 63 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1975–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.7.
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications is Q1 in Statistics and Probability (rank 25 of 303) and Q1 in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (rank 10 of 63), by CiteScore 2025.
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 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 6.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.647, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 202.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 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.
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0378-4371 and its online ISSN is 1873-2119.
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.
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.
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications has an h-index of 236 and a 2-year mean of 3.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #26 of 294 Scopus journals in Statistics and Probability.
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications published 777 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 2,024. 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 86 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (45.6%), India (7%) and United States (5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 8 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 per 1,000 papers). 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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