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Physical Review Physics Education Research

American Physical Society · United States · Est. 2016

ISSN2469-9896eISSN2469-9896

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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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

1.586

H-Indexi

SNIPi

2.303

Total Worksi

1,119

Total Citationsi

21,442

2yr Mean Citednessi

3.19

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Education & Educational Research; Education, Scientific Disciplines; Education; Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous).

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2016

FrequencyBiannual

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,119

Publisher OrgAmerican Physical Society

OA Since2015

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewSingle-blind

OA LicenseCC BY

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

📦 Long-term Preservation

Portico

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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10/11 · 91%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

American Physical Society

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2469-9896 / 2469-9896

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Single-blind

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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?

Portico

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Plagiarism detection in place?

Yes

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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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

103

3.4k

2019

117

2.9k

2020

109

2.1k

2021

104

1.6k

2022

123

1.6k

2023

117

874

2024

145

450

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.

EducationQ1

Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)Q1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Education & Educational ResearchEducation, Scientific Disciplines

Scopus Categories

Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)Education

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Science Education and PedagogyEducational Strategies and EpistemologiesInnovative Teaching MethodsCareer Development and DiversityExperimental Learning in EngineeringEducation and Critical Thinking DevelopmentInnovative Teaching and Learning MethodsEducation, Achievement, and GiftednessExperimental and Theoretical Physics StudiesVisual and Cognitive Learning Processes

Frequently asked questions about Physical Review Physics Education Research

Is Physical Review Physics Education Research a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Physical Review Physics Education Research: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, 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 Physical Review Physics Education Research?

Physical Review Physics Education Research 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 3.19.

Is Physical Review Physics Education Research indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Physical Review Physics Education Research is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Physical Review Physics Education Research?