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Clinical and Experimental Optometry is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0816-4622Verify ISSN ↗1444-0938Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: About US$2,900 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ophthalmology | 51 / 147 | 65th | Q2 |
| Optometry | 6 / 15 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.4.
Clinical and Experimental Optometry is Q2 in Ophthalmology (rank 51 of 147) and Q2 in Optometry (rank 6 of 15), by CiteScore 2025.
Clinical and Experimental Optometry 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.584, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 79.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,900 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.
Clinical and Experimental Optometry is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0816-4622 and its online ISSN is 1444-0938.
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.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Clinical and Experimental Optometry has an h-index of 95 and a 2-year mean of 1.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #66 of 146 Scopus journals in Ophthalmology.
Clinical and Experimental Optometry published 181 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 227. 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Türkiye (22.7%), Australia (21%) and United Kingdom (9.6%).
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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