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Physical Review Accelerators and Beams is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Physical Society.
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ISSN 2469-9888Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Physical Society
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) | 36 / 88 | 59th | Q2 |
| Nuclear and High Energy Physics | 41 / 97 | 58th | Q2 |
| Surfaces and Interfaces | 42 / 63 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams is Q2 in Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) (rank 36 of 88), Q2 in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (rank 41 of 97) and Q3 in Surfaces and Interfaces (rank 42 of 63), by CiteScore 2025.
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 59th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.679, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 44.
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams is published by American Physical Society. Its ISSN is 2469-9888.
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.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams has an h-index of 48 and a 2-year mean of 2.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #33 of 87 Scopus journals in Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous).
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams published 218 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 289. 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 71 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (30%), United States (18.3%) and Japan (11.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. 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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