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Wuli Xuebao/Acta Physica Sinica is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.8), WoS SCIE. Published by Chinese Physical Society and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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ISSN 1000-3290Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Chinese Physical Society and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 158 / 248 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.8.
Wuli Xuebao/Acta Physica Sinica is Q3 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 158 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Wuli Xuebao/Acta Physica Sinica 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 36th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.222, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 56.
Wuli Xuebao/Acta Physica Sinica is published by Chinese Physical Society and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Its ISSN is 1000-3290.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Wuli Xuebao/Acta Physica Sinica has an h-index of 52 and a 2-year mean of 0.64 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #177 of 235 Scopus journals in Physics and Astronomy (all).
Wuli Xuebao/Acta Physica Sinica published 892 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 1,197. 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.1 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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