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Advances in Optics and Photonics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 49.6), WoS SCIE. Published by Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA).
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ISSN 1943-8206Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 4 / 243 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 49.6.
Advances in Optics and Photonics is Q1 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 4 of 243), by CiteScore 2025.
Advances in Optics and 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 49.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 8.026, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 99.
Advances in Optics and Photonics is published by Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA). Its ISSN is 1943-8206.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Advances in Optics and Photonics has an h-index of 110 and a 2-year mean of 26.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 49.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 222 Scopus journals in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.
Advances in Optics and Photonics published 12 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 21. 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 58 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (34.7%), China (11.6%) and Germany (6.9%).
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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