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Contact Lens and Anterior Eye is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1367-0484Verify ISSN ↗1476-5411Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,740 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Optometry | 1 / 15 | 96th | Q1 |
| Ophthalmology | 13 / 147 | 91st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.5.
Contact Lens and Anterior Eye is Q1 in Optometry (rank 1 of 15) and Q1 in Ophthalmology (rank 13 of 147), by CiteScore 2025.
Contact Lens and Anterior Eye 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 7.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.551, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 73.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,740 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.
Contact Lens and Anterior Eye is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 1367-0484 and its online ISSN is 1476-5411.
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.
Contact Lens and Anterior Eye has an h-index of 80 and a 2-year mean of 2.89 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #23 of 146 Scopus journals in Ophthalmology.
Contact Lens and Anterior Eye published 203 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 424. 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 95 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (17.7%), Australia (13.6%) and United Kingdom (12.9%).
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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