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Current Optics and Photonics is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.7), WoS SCIE. Published by Optical Society of Korea.
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ISSN 2508-7266Verify ISSN ↗2508-7274Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Optical Society of Korea
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 183 / 243 | 24th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.7.
Current Optics and Photonics is Q4 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 183 of 243), by CiteScore 2025.
Current Optics and Photonics 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 24th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.279, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 17.
Current Optics and Photonics is published by Optical Society of Korea. Its print ISSN is 2508-7266 and its online ISSN is 2508-7274.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Current Optics and Photonics has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #209 of 222 Scopus journals in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.
Current Optics and Photonics published 57 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 80. 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 31 research articles (2021), authors are most often from South Korea (66.1%), China (32.3%) and Zimbabwe (1.6%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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