Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics

Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics is published by Oxford University Press and is in Zone 4 of Physics & Astronomy in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Black Holes and Theoretical Physics, Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions, together about 38.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Nuclear and High Energy Physics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (PTEP) is an international journal that publishes articles on theoretical and experimental physics. PTEP is a fully open access, online-only journal published by the Physical Society of Japan. PTEP is the successor to Progress of Theoretical Physics (PTP), which terminated in December 2012 and merged into PTEP in January 2013. PTP was founded in 1946 by Hideki Yukawa, the first Japanese Nobel Laureate. PTEP, the successor journal to PTP, has a broader scope than that of PTP covering both theoretical and experimental physics. PTEP mainly covers areas including particles and fields, nuclear physics, astrophysics and cosmology, beam physics and instrumentation, and general and mathematical physics. PTEP is published monthly from 2013. Citing This Journal Articles can be cited using the volume and unique identifier number, e.g. S. Panda, T. G. Sarkar, and S. P. Khastgir, Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys., 2012, 123B09 (2012). Please note that PTEP uses the year of publication as the volume number, so in the above example the first instance of “2012” is the volume number and the second instance is the year of publication. PTEP is an online-only journal and is not continuously paginated. A unique Article ID is used to cite a paper where page numbers are traditionally used. An Article ID is assigned to each paper and appears clearly on the pdf and html versions. The Article ID is made up of the issue number (“12” in the above example), the number one, two or three depending on whether it is a letter, invited paper or paper (1=letter, 2=invited paper, 3=paper; “3” in the above example), a letter corresponding to the subject section of the paper (a list of these subject sections and their corresponding letters; “B” in the above example), and the sequence of publication within that issue and category (“09” in the above example). Abstracting and Indexing Services PTEP is covered by the following indexing services: Astrophysics Data System CNPIEC EBSCO Google Scholar Informatics Global OCLC ProQuest/ExLibris Softweco TDNet The IET Wanfang Data zbMath Baidu Clarivate Analytics (SCI) Scopus Citation metrics Clarivate 2025 Impact Factor 2.4 2025 5 Year Impact Factor 4.9 Physics, Multidisciplinary (Rank by Impact Factor) 44/112 Physics, Particles & Fields (Rank by Impact Factor) 17/31 2025 Cited Half-Life 4.3 years 2025 Immediacy Index 0.5 2025 Eigenfactor Score 0.00841 2025 Article Influence Score 1.264 Scopus 2025 CiteScore 10.1 Ph

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): PHYSICS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-PHYSICS, PARTICLES & FIELDS

Editor-in-chief C.S. LimPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Hong Kong, China 2, Japan 2, Taiwan, China 1 (5 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

zbMATHPublisher website

Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO, ProQuest, Baidu, Astrophysics Data System, OCLC

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Impact

Impact factor

2.25LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

44Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

4.9Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

10.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

10.1Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

1.09LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.65LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

31LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

68OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

786OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.1OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

4.2%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

99.81%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

168LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

270,698Publisher website · 2026-10-01

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.

Average review time (community reports)

about 17 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 17 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Unspecified peer reviewDOAJ

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.

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The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

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.

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Country or region

ENGLAND

Language

English

ISSN

2050-3911

Latest issue on the website

Volume 2026, Issue 9 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗LetPub
• Author guidelines ↗LetPub
• Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗LetPub
• Editorial board ↗LetPub
• Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ