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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences India Section A - Physical Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer India.
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ISSN 0369-8203Verify ISSN ↗2250-1762Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer India
Cost to publish: About US$3,090 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 121 / 248 | 51st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.8.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences India Section A - Physical Sciences is Q2 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 121 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences India Section A - Physical Sciences 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 51st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.276, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 29.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,090 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.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences India Section A - Physical Sciences is published by Springer India. Its print ISSN is 0369-8203 and its online ISSN is 2250-1762.
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.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences India Section A - Physical Sciences has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0.61 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #179 of 235 Scopus journals in Physics and Astronomy (all).
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences India Section A - Physical Sciences published 60 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 118. 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 95 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (71.7%), Türkiye (9.3%) and Iran (3%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.7 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 2 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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