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Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics
Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.7), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Pleiades Publishing.
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Quick answers
Is Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics indexed in Scopus?
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.7.
What quartile is Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics in Scopus?
Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics is Q3 in Earth-Surface Processes (rank 105 of 184), Q3 in Instrumentation (rank 121 of 206) and Q3 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 202 of 307), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 8 subject areas in all.
What is the impact factor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics?
Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 43rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.298, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 28.
Who publishes Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics and what is its ISSN?
Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics is published by Pleiades Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1024-8560 and its online ISSN is 2070-0393.
Is Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics covered under ONOS in India?
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.
Is Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics in Web of Science?
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Is Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics open access?
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
How well cited is Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics? — open metrics via OpenAlex
Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 0.66 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #107 of 172 Scopus journals in Earth-Surface Processes.
29
h-index
0.66
2-yr mean citations
304
i10-index
1,810
works indexed
9,337
total citations
2-yr mean citations, among Scopus journals in the same subject
#107 of 172Bottom 38%Earth-Surface Processes
#113 of 146Bottom 23%Instrumentation
#202 of 291Bottom 31%Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
Papers published per year
Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics published 120 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 146. 2026* is the year so far.
Main topics
Atmospheric Ozone and ClimateAtmospheric aerosols and cloudsAtmospheric and Environmental Gas DynamicsAtmospheric chemistry and aerosols
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.
Who publishes in Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics? — latest 92 articles, 2025–2026
In its latest 92 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Russia (94%), China (3.8%) and Belarus (0.5%). 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.
Are there integrity warnings for Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics? — indicators, not proof of misconduct
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.
Scopus statusActive
Retracted papersNone recorded
Problematic Paper Screener flagsNone flagged
Author concentration94% of recent authorship from Russia
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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