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Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 2662-4729Verify ISSN ↗2662-4737Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$3,690 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instrumentation | 62 / 206 | 70th | Q2 |
| Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging | 116 / 361 | 68th | Q2 |
| Radiological and Ultrasound Technology | 28 / 64 | 57th | Q2 |
| Biophysics | 74 / 155 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Biotechnology | 163 / 325 | 50th | Q2 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 180 / 342 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.3.
Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine is Q2 in Instrumentation (rank 62 of 206), Q2 in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (rank 116 of 361) and Q2 in Radiological and Ultrasound Technology (rank 28 of 64), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine 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 4.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.534, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 53.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,690 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.
Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 2662-4729 and its online ISSN is 2662-4737.
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.
Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine has an h-index of 43 and a 2-year mean of 2.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #53 of 146 Scopus journals in Instrumentation.
Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine published 184 papers in 2025. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Australia (13.5%), India (13.3%) and Japan (12.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (3 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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