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Reports on Progress in Physics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 23), 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 0034-4885Verify ISSN ↗1361-6633Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: IOP Publishing Ltd.
Cost to publish: About US$4,680 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 8 / 248 | 96th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1949–present (also 1947, 1944, 1934–1942), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 23.
Reports on Progress in Physics is Q1 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 8 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Reports on Progress in Physics 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 23, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.983, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 273.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,680 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.
Reports on Progress in Physics is published by IOP Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0034-4885 and its online ISSN is 1361-6633.
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.
Reports on Progress in Physics has an h-index of 351 and a 2-year mean of 9.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 23, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #11 of 235 Scopus journals in Physics and Astronomy (all).
Reports on Progress in Physics published 108 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (21.4%), United States (15.2%) and Germany (6.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.4 per 1,000 papers). 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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