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APL Photonics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.6), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by American Institute of Physics.
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ISSN 2378-0967Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 46 / 243 | 81st | Q1 |
| Computer Networks and Communications | 114 / 568 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.6.
APL Photonics is Q1 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 46 of 243) and Q1 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 114 of 568), by CiteScore 2025.
APL 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 7.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.488, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 74.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,750 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.
APL Photonics is published by American Institute of Physics. Its ISSN is 2378-0967.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
APL Photonics has an h-index of 83 and a 2-year mean of 5.97 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #27 of 222 Scopus journals in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.
APL Photonics published 348 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 (35.7%), United States (14.5%) and Japan (5%).
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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