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Physics of the Solid State

Pleiades Publishing · United States · Est. 1984

ISSN1090-6460

SJR Q4✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

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📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Bottom 25%

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.213

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.36

Total Worksi

11,695

Total Citationsi

73,342

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.73

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Physics, Condensed Matter; Condensed Matter Physics; Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1984

Annual Volume~ 188 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications11,695

Publisher OrgPleiades Publishing

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Pleiades Publishing

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1090-6460

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

812

2019

711

1.6k

2020

586

1.1k

2021

752

684

2022

364

222

2023

322

2024

125

239

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Condensed Matter PhysicsQ4

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic MaterialsQ4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Physics, Condensed Matter

Scopus Categories

Condensed Matter PhysicsElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallographyMagnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materialsFerroelectric and Piezoelectric MaterialsPhysics of Superconductivity and MagnetismMagnetic properties of thin filmsSemiconductor Quantum Structures and DevicesAdvanced Condensed Matter PhysicsMultiferroics and related materialsCarbon Nanotubes in CompositesLuminescence Properties of Advanced Materials

Frequently asked questions about Physics of the Solid State

Is Physics of the Solid State a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Physics of the Solid State: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Physics of the Solid State?

Physics of the Solid State is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 1.73.

Is Physics of the Solid State indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Physics of the Solid State is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Physics of the Solid State?