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Q3American Journal of Physics
About American Journal of Physics
American Journal of Physics is a scholarly journal published by American Association of Physics Teachers. SCImago 2025 places it in Q3 with an SJR of 0.349 and an H-index of 120.
Its listed coverage is 1935, 1937-1938, 1940-1991, 1993-2026 and its research categories include Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) (Q3). The 2025 dataset reports 125 documents and 350 citations across the latest three-year reporting window.
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Aims & Scope
The journal publishes research related to Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies, Quantum Mechanics and Applications, Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, Relativity and Gravitational Theory, Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics, Experimental Learning in Engineering.
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