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Physics-Uspekhi is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.2), WoS SCIE. Published by Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk.
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ISSN 1063-7869Verify ISSN ↗1468-4780Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 81 / 248 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.2.
Physics-Uspekhi is Q2 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 81 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Physics-Uspekhi 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 4.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.382, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 97.
Physics-Uspekhi is published by Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk. Its print ISSN is 1063-7869 and its online ISSN is 1468-4780.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Physics-Uspekhi has an h-index of 123 and a 2-year mean of 1.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #141 of 235 Scopus journals in Physics and Astronomy (all).
Physics-Uspekhi published 125 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 134. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from Russia (94.8%), United States (2.8%) and Uzbekistan (1.4%). 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. 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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