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Chemical Physics Reviews
ISSN 2688-4070
Chemical Physics Reviews: CAS Zone 3 · Chemistry (2025 upgraded edition); fully open access; 42 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Chemical Physics Reviews is in Zone 3 of Chemistry in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Machine Learning in Materials Science, Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies, together about 21.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Materials Chemistry. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Chemical Physics Reviews (CPR) publishes authoritative review articles spanning the full breadth of physical chemistry, chemical physics, and molecular physics. The journal features comprehensive, critical, and forward-looking reviews that synthesize significant developments in established areas and highlight emerging directions of research within the chemical and molecular physics communities. The scope of CPR encompasses experimental, theoretical, and computational studies of the fundamental physical principles governing atoms, molecules, and their interactions. Topics include, but are not limited to, molecular structure and dynamics, spectroscopy, reaction dynamics, electronic structure, quantum phenomena, statistical mechanics, condensed-phase systems, and other foundational areas at the interface of chemistry and physics. Through in-depth reviews, the journal aims to provide insight into current advances, unresolved challenges, and future opportunities in fundamental chemical and molecular physics.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Editor-in-chief F. N. CastellanoPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Machine Learning in Materials ScienceMaterials Science8.9%
- Advanced Photocatalysis TechniquesEnergy6.3%
- Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical StudiesPhysics and Astronomy6.3%
- Perovskite Materials and ApplicationsEngineering5.8%
- Quantum Dots Synthesis And PropertiesMaterials Science5.8%
- Luminescence and Fluorescent MaterialsMaterials Science5.8%
- Electrocatalysts for Energy ConversionEnergy5.2%
- Advanced Chemical Physics StudiesPhysics and Astronomy4.6%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Chemistry Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Chemistry | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Chemistry, Physical | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Chemistry Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Chemistry | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Chemistry, Physical | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
SCIELetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- h-index
- 35OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 118OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 7.14OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 1.6%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 98.56%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 41LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 251 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 40 | 40 | 46 |
| 2025 | 42 | 42 | 395 |
| 2024 | 50 | 50 | 502 |
| 2023 | 49 | 49 | 1,084 |
| 2022 | 37 | 37 | 1,184 |
| 2021 | 27 | 27 | 913 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
Too few articlesOnly 1 articles from the last 24 months carry both submission and acceptance dates, too few for a median
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessOpenAlex
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted1
- review articleReview Article | August 31 2026Length not stated
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- ISSN
- 2688-4070
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 7, Issue 2 (June 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Chemical Physics Reviews
What CAS zone is Chemical Physics Reviews in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Chemical Physics Reviews is in Zone 3 of Chemistry, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Chemistry, Physical / Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Chemistry. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
Which databases index Chemical Physics Reviews?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Chemical Physics Reviews is indexed in SCIE.
Is Chemical Physics Reviews open access, and what is the APC?
Chemical Physics Reviews is a fully open-access journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .