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Chinese Optics Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.6), WoS SCIE. Published by Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA).
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ISSN 1671-7694Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 349 / 1030 | 66th | Q2 |
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 99 / 243 | 59th | Q2 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 137 / 318 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.6.
Chinese Optics Letters is Q2 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 349 of 1030), Q2 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 99 of 243) and Q2 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 137 of 318), by CiteScore 2025.
Chinese Optics Letters 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 4.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.628, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 53.
Chinese Optics Letters is published by Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA). Its ISSN is 1671-7694.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Chinese Optics Letters has an h-index of 46 and a 2-year mean of 4.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #146 of 744 Scopus journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Chinese Optics Letters published 389 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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