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Topics in Applied Physics is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3). Published by Springer Verlag.
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ISSN 0303-4216Verify ISSN ↗1437-0859Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) | 61 / 88 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present (also 2004–2017, 1985, 1983), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
Topics in Applied Physics is Q3 in Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) (rank 61 of 88), by CiteScore 2025.
Topics in Applied Physics is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3, 31st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Topics in Applied Physics is published by Springer Verlag. Its print ISSN is 0303-4216 and its online ISSN is 1437-0859.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Topics in Applied Physics has an h-index of 139 and a 2-year mean of 0.76 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #66 of 87 Scopus journals in Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous).
Topics in Applied Physics published 7 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 87. 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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