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Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-VCH Verlag.
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ISSN 1862-6300Verify ISSN ↗1862-6319Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag
Cost to publish: About US$3,780 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 424 / 1030 | 58th | Q2 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 227 / 446 | 49th | Q3 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 166 / 318 | 47th | Q3 |
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 75 / 141 | 47th | Q3 |
| Materials Chemistry | 184 / 327 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Surfaces and Interfaces | 39 / 63 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.7.
Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science is Q2 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 424 of 1030), Q3 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 227 of 446) and Q3 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 166 of 318), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 58th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.412, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 122.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,780 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 Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science is published by Wiley-VCH Verlag. Its print ISSN is 1862-6300 and its online ISSN is 1862-6319.
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 Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science has an h-index of 155 and a 2-year mean of 1.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #383 of 744 Scopus journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science published 429 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 650. 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.
Scopus status: Active. 8 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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