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Powder Diffraction is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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ISSN 0885-7156Verify ISSN ↗1945-7413Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,550 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radiation | 42 / 75 | 44th | Q3 |
| Instrumentation | 122 / 206 | 41st | Q3 |
| Materials Science (all) | 364 / 475 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 348 / 446 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
Powder Diffraction is Q3 in Radiation (rank 42 of 75), Q3 in Instrumentation (rank 122 of 206) and Q4 in Materials Science (all) (rank 364 of 475), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Powder Diffraction 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 44th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.563, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 56.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 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.
Powder Diffraction is published by Cambridge University Press. Its print ISSN is 0885-7156 and its online ISSN is 1945-7413.
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.
Powder Diffraction has an h-index of 72 and a 2-year mean of 2.75 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #8 of 62 Scopus journals in Radiation.
Powder Diffraction published 65 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 131. 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 81 research articles (2024–2025), authors are most often from United States (69.1%), Colombia (4.1%) and Japan (3.7%). 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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