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Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.3), 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 0921-4534Verify ISSN ↗1873-2143Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,400 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 560 / 1030 | 45th | Q3 |
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 189 / 347 | 45th | Q3 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 202 / 318 | 36th | Q3 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 303 / 446 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.3.
Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications is Q3 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 560 of 1030), Q3 in Energy Engineering and Power Technology (rank 189 of 347) and Q3 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 202 of 318), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Physica C: Superconductivity 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 2.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 45th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.434, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 94.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,400 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 C: Superconductivity and its Applications is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0921-4534 and its online ISSN is 1873-2143.
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.
Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications has an h-index of 143 and a 2-year mean of 1.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #402 of 744 Scopus journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications published 124 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 198. 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 92 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (57.1%), Japan (6.5%) and Russia (5.4%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 7 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.
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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