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Clinical Optometry is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Dove Medical Press Ltd.
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ISSN 1179-2752Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Dove Medical Press Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ophthalmology | 53 / 147 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Sensory Systems | 24 / 43 | 45th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.3.
Clinical Optometry is Q2 in Ophthalmology (rank 53 of 147) and Q3 in Sensory Systems (rank 24 of 43), by CiteScore 2025.
Clinical Optometry 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.663, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 26.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,320 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 Optometry is published by Dove Medical Press Ltd. Its ISSN is 1179-2752.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Clinical Optometry has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 1.9 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #45 of 146 Scopus journals in Ophthalmology.
Clinical Optometry published 42 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 42. 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (22.8%), South Africa (13.7%) and Japan (8.2%).
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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