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ACS Photonics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Chemical Society.
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ISSN 2330-4022Verify 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 100 / 1030 | 90th | Q1 |
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 25 / 243 | 89th | Q1 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 43 / 318 | 86th | Q1 |
| Biotechnology | 51 / 325 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.4.
ACS Photonics is Q1 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 100 of 1030), Q1 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 25 of 243) and Q1 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 43 of 318), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
ACS Photonics is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 10.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.816, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 155.
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 Photonics is published by American Chemical Society. Its ISSN is 2330-4022.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
ACS Photonics has an h-index of 167 and a 2-year mean of 5.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #80 of 744 Scopus journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
ACS Photonics published 761 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 (42.3%), United States (13%) and Germany (4.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. 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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