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Physical Review Fluids is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Physical Society.
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ISSN 2469-990XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Physical Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modeling and Simulation | 96 / 397 | 75th | Q1 |
| Computational Mechanics | 27 / 99 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes | 31 / 99 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.8.
Physical Review Fluids is Q1 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 96 of 397), Q2 in Computational Mechanics (rank 27 of 99) and Q2 in Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes (rank 31 of 99), by CiteScore 2025.
Physical Review Fluids 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.867, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 73.
Physical Review Fluids is published by American Physical Society. Its ISSN is 2469-990X.
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 Review Fluids has an h-index of 81 and a 2-year mean of 2.77 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #91 of 323 Scopus journals in Modeling and Simulation.
Physical Review Fluids published 665 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 35 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (39.1%), China (22.9%) and India (9.1%).
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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