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ACS Applied Optical Materials is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.9), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Chemical Society.
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ISSN 2771-9855Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Chemical Society
Cost to publish: About US$4,500 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 119 / 243 | 51st | Q2 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 163 / 318 | 48th | Q3 |
| Spectroscopy | 47 / 81 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.9.
ACS Applied Optical Materials is Q2 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 119 of 243), Q3 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 163 of 318) and Q3 in Spectroscopy (rank 47 of 81), by CiteScore 2025.
ACS Applied Optical Materials is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 3.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 51st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.619, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 19.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,500 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
ACS Applied Optical Materials is published by American Chemical Society. Its ISSN is 2771-9855.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
ACS Applied Optical Materials has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 3.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #71 of 222 Scopus journals in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.
ACS Applied Optical Materials published 310 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (22.8%), India (17.8%) and United States (11.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.8 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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