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Advances in Ophthalmology and Optometry is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.3). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Inc..
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ISSN 2452-1760Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$2,800 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ophthalmology | 129 / 147 | 12th | Q4 |
| Optometry | 15 / 15 | 3rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.3.
Advances in Ophthalmology and Optometry is Q4 in Ophthalmology (rank 129 of 147) and Q4 in Optometry (rank 15 of 15), by CiteScore 2025.
Advances in Ophthalmology and Optometry is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q4, 12th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.113, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 8.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,800 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.
Advances in Ophthalmology and Optometry is published by Elsevier Inc. Its ISSN is 2452-1760.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Advances in Ophthalmology and Optometry has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #127 of 146 Scopus journals in Ophthalmology.
Advances in Ophthalmology and Optometry published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 34. 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 89 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (76.2%), India (10.1%) and Canada (4.3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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