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Fortschritte der Physik

Wiley-VCH Verlag · Germany · Est. 1953

ISSN1521-3978

SJR Q1✓ 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.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

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📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

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

SJR Scorei

1.192

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.509

Total Worksi

3,840

Total Citationsi

50,217

2yr Mean Citednessi

3.13

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Physics, Multidisciplinary; Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous).

General Information

Country / RegionGermany

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1953

Annual Volume~ 95 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications3,840

Publisher OrgWiley

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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

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Wiley-VCH Verlag

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1521-3978

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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

101

2.1k

2019

916

2020

586

2021

1.6k

2022

106

1.2k

2023

652

2024

190

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.

Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)Q1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Physics, Multidisciplinary

Scopus Categories

Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Black Holes and Theoretical PhysicsCosmology and Gravitation TheoriesNoncommutative and Quantum Gravity TheoriesParticle physics theoretical and experimental studiesQuantum Chromodynamics and Particle InteractionsQuantum Mechanics and ApplicationsQuantum Information and CryptographyCold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein CondensatesAlgebraic structures and combinatorial modelsAdvanced Chemical Physics Studies

Frequently asked questions about Fortschritte der Physik

Is Fortschritte der Physik a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Fortschritte der Physik: 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 Fortschritte der Physik?

Fortschritte der Physik 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 3.13.

Is Fortschritte der Physik indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Fortschritte der Physik is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Fortschritte der Physik?