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Physics of Fluids is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Institute of Physics.
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ISSN 1070-6631Verify ISSN ↗1089-7666Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computational Mechanics | 24 / 99 | 76th | Q1 |
| Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes | 25 / 99 | 75th | Q1 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 207 / 740 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 142 / 446 | 68th | Q2 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 138 / 408 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present (also 1958–1988), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.4.
Physics of Fluids is Q1 in Computational Mechanics (rank 24 of 99), Q1 in Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes (rank 25 of 99) and Q2 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 207 of 740), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Physics of 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 5.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.714, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 220.
Physics of Fluids is published by American Institute of Physics. Its print ISSN is 1070-6631 and its online ISSN is 1089-7666.
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.
Physics of Fluids has an h-index of 248 and a 2-year mean of 4.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #12 of 86 Scopus journals in Computational Mechanics.
Physics of Fluids published 6,184 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (62%), India (8.1%) and United States (5.5%). 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. 30 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 2 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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