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Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.8), 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 0741-3335Verify ISSN ↗1361-6587Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: IOP Publishing Ltd.
Cost to publish: About US$3,325 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nuclear Energy and Engineering | 25 / 85 | 71st | Q2 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 216 / 446 | 51st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1984–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.8.
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion is Q2 in Nuclear Energy and Engineering (rank 25 of 85) and Q2 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 216 of 446), by CiteScore 2025.
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.985, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 128.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,325 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.
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion is published by IOP Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0741-3335 and its online ISSN is 1361-6587.
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.
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion has an h-index of 145 and a 2-year mean of 2.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #29 of 77 Scopus journals in Nuclear Energy and Engineering.
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion published 417 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (28.8%), United States (13.1%) and Germany (9.3%).
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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