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Scientia Sinica: Physica, Mechanica et Astronomica is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4), WoS ESCI. Published by Science Press.
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ISSN 1674-7275Verify ISSN ↗2095-9478Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Science Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 178 / 248 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
Scientia Sinica: Physica, Mechanica et Astronomica is Q3 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 178 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Scientia Sinica: Physica, Mechanica et Astronomica is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 28th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.182, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 24.
Scientia Sinica: Physica, Mechanica et Astronomica is published by Science Press. Its print ISSN is 1674-7275 and its online ISSN is 2095-9478.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Scientia Sinica: Physica, Mechanica et Astronomica has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 0.54 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #187 of 235 Scopus journals in Physics and Astronomy (all).
Scientia Sinica: Physica, Mechanica et Astronomica published 256 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.
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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