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Eye and Contact Lens is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
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ISSN 1542-2321Verify ISSN ↗1542-233XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ophthalmology | 41 / 147 | 72nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present (also 1993–1994, 1986), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.8.
Eye and Contact Lens is Q2 in Ophthalmology (rank 41 of 147), by CiteScore 2025.
Eye and Contact Lens 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.852, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 74.
Eye and Contact Lens is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. Its print ISSN is 1542-2321 and its online ISSN is 1542-233X.
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.
Eye and Contact Lens has an h-index of 80 and a 2-year mean of 1.75 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #51 of 146 Scopus journals in Ophthalmology.
Eye and Contact Lens published 93 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 118. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (24.8%), Türkiye (14.3%) and China (13.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (1.7 per 1,000 papers). 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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