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Chinese Optics is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.3), WoS ESCI. Published by Editorial Office of Chinese Optics.
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ISSN 2097-1842Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Editorial Office of Chinese Optics
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 159 / 243 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.3.
Chinese Optics is Q3 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 159 of 243), by CiteScore 2025.
Chinese 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 2.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 34th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.253, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 30.
Chinese Optics is published by Editorial Office of Chinese Optics. Its ISSN is 2097-1842.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Chinese Optics has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #190 of 222 Scopus journals in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.
Chinese Optics published 165 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.
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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