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Physics World is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by IOP Publishing Ltd..
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ISSN 0953-8585Verify ISSN ↗2058-7058Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: IOP Publishing Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 246 / 248 | 1st | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Physics World is Q4 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 246 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Physics World 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 0.1, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 1st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.101, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 48.
Physics World is published by IOP Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0953-8585 and its online ISSN is 2058-7058.
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 World has an h-index of 59 and a 2-year mean of 0.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #222 of 235 Scopus journals in Physics and Astronomy (all).
Physics World published 340 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 561. 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 26 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (57.7%), United Kingdom (28.8%) and India (3.8%). 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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