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Physics Reports is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 54.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0370-1573Verify ISSN ↗1873-6270Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$6,240 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 2 / 248 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1971–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 54.4.
Physics Reports is Q1 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 2 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Physics Reports 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 54.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 5.320, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 347.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$6,240 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.
Physics Reports is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0370-1573 and its online ISSN is 1873-6270.
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 Reports has an h-index of 464 and a 2-year mean of 16.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 54.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #5 of 235 Scopus journals in Physics and Astronomy (all).
Physics Reports published 99 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 117. 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 73 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (23.7%), United States (13%) and Spain (6.6%).
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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