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Physics Today is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.9), 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 0031-9228Verify ISSN ↗1945-0699Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 151 / 248 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1948–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.9.
Physics Today is Q3 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 151 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Physics Today 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 1.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 39th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.386, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 131.
Physics Today is published by American Institute of Physics. Its print ISSN is 0031-9228 and its online ISSN is 1945-0699.
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 Today has an h-index of 462 and a 2-year mean of 0.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #174 of 235 Scopus journals in Physics and Astronomy (all).
Physics Today published 284 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 872. 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.
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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