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Faguang Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Luminescence is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2). Published by Editorial Office of Chinese Optics.
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ISSN 1000-7032Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Editorial Office of Chinese Optics
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radiation | 36 / 75 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 215 / 318 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 327 / 446 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.
Faguang Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Luminescence is Q2 in Radiation (rank 36 of 75), Q3 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 215 of 318) and Q3 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 327 of 446), by CiteScore 2025.
Faguang Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Luminescence is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q2, 52nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.189, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 22.
Faguang Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Luminescence is published by Editorial Office of Chinese Optics. Its ISSN is 1000-7032.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Faguang Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Luminescence has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 0.54 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #47 of 62 Scopus journals in Radiation.
Faguang Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Luminescence published 200 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 275. 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 63 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (99.2%) and Macao SAR China (0.8%). 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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