Physical Review Accelerators and Beams

ISSN 2469-9888 · American Physical Society · United States · active 2016–2026

Metrics

Best Scimago quartile (2025)
Q1
Cites per paper (2y)
2.1
SJR
0.679
h-index
48

“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric (how the two differ). Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline. What the other figures mean: journal quartile, SJR, h-index and article processing charge.

Data as of 1 November 2026 (venue index build).

Scimago Journal Rank 2025

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Physical Review Accelerators and Beams is Q1 in 1 of its 3 subject categories and Q2 in the other 2. Its best category quartile is Q1.

Scimago 2025 quartile and rank of Physical Review Accelerators and Beams in each subject category
Subject categoryQuartileRank in category
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)Q1#79 of 320
Surfaces and InterfacesQ2#23 of 63
Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsQ2#31 of 94
Cites per document (2 years, Scopus)
1.96
Documents indexed in 2025 (Scopus)
208

The quartile is the one Scimago prints for each category. Rank is the journal's position by SJR among the journals Scimago lists in that category (#1 is the highest); “—” means we hold no rank consistent with that quartile. The document count is what Scopus indexed that year, which can be lower than a journal's full output. Source: SCImago Journal Rank 2025 edition, from Scopus data (scimagojr.com, CC BY-NC).

Physical Review Accelerators and Beams is Q1 in 1 of its 3 Scimago subject categories (2025 edition; best category Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous): Q1, #79 of 320), with SJR 0.679 (Scimago) and an h-index of 48 (OpenAlex). Listed in DOAJ, Scopus, Web of Science.

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Responding time

Submission to publication
~31 wk
DOAJ self-reported

Turnaround figures are indicative, not a guarantee: DOAJ values are self-reported by the journal (average weeks, submission to publication); library estimates are medians of the received/accepted dates printed in papers we hold. Editorial times vary by article type and season — confirm on the journal’s own site.

Indexing & access

Indexed in
DOAJScopusWeb of Science
Access status:
gold. Where this comes from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic — confirm on the journal’s own site, especially regarding any article processing charge.
Article processing charge
Free to publish — DOAJ lists no article processing charge (APC).

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Scope

particleacceleratorsfree-electronlaserselectricalelectronicengineeringbeamdynamicsaerospacegyrotronvacuum

Frequently asked

Is Physical Review Accelerators and Beams a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag Physical Review Accelerators and Beams. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in DOAJ, Scopus, Web of Science, which is a positive signal.

Is Physical Review Accelerators and Beams indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, Physical Review Accelerators and Beams appears in: DOAJ, Scopus, Web of Science. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is the impact factor of Physical Review Accelerators and Beams?

Papers in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams are cited about 2.1 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q1, with an h-index of 48. Those are the open equivalents: the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is a proprietary metric we neither compute nor license, so we show the two-year citation rate and Scimago quartile instead — they answer the same question of how heavily the journal is cited. A citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

What Scimago quartile is Physical Review Accelerators and Beams (Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4)?

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Physical Review Accelerators and Beams is Q1 in 1 of its 3 subject categories and Q2 in the other 2. By category: Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous): Q1, #79 of 320; Surfaces and Interfaces: Q2, #23 of 63; Nuclear and High Energy Physics: Q2, #31 of 94. Its best category quartile is Q1. Quartiles split the journals in a subject category into four equal groups by SJR, so Q1 is the most-cited quarter and Q4 the least; Physical Review Accelerators and Beams is cited about 2.1 times per paper over two years, with an h-index of 48.

What is the Web of Science (JCR) quartile of Physical Review Accelerators and Beams?

The Web of Science quartile comes from Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a proprietary product we neither license nor compute — so we cannot state a JCR quartile for Physical Review Accelerators and Beams. The open equivalent is its best Scimago quartile, Q1 in Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), derived from Scopus citation data. Because JCR ranks against Web of Science and Scimago against Scopus, the two can differ, so check Clarivate's site directly if you need the JCR quartile specifically.

Is Physical Review Accelerators and Beams open access?

Our index records its access status as "gold". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.

Is Physical Review Accelerators and Beams free to publish in?

Free to publish — DOAJ lists no article processing charge (APC). So there is no fee for authors to publish in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams. Fee policies change — confirm on the journal's own site before relying on it.

How long does Physical Review Accelerators and Beams take to publish a paper?

Submission to publication for Physical Review Accelerators and Beams takes about ~31 wk — DOAJ self-reported. Treat it as indicative rather than a guarantee: editorial times vary by article type, reviewer availability and season, and a self-reported figure is the journal's own. We do not hold a peer-review acceptance rate for Physical Review Accelerators and Beams.

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