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Reviews of Modern Physics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 80.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Physical Society.
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ISSN 0034-6861Verify ISSN ↗1539-0756Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Physical Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 1 / 248 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1929–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 80.3.
Reviews of Modern Physics is Q1 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 1 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Reviews of Modern 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 80.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 13.041, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 417.
Reviews of Modern Physics is published by American Physical Society. Its print ISSN is 0034-6861 and its online ISSN is 1539-0756.
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.
Reviews of Modern Physics has an h-index of 619 and a 2-year mean of 33.86 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 80.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 235 Scopus journals in Physics and Astronomy (all).
Reviews of Modern Physics published 45 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 87 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (29.1%), Germany (11.2%) and France (9.8%).
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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