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Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 0721-832XVerify ISSN ↗1435-702XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,990 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ophthalmology | 24 / 147 | 84th | Q1 |
| Sensory Systems | 11 / 43 | 75th | Q1 |
| Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience | 57 / 102 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1982–present (also 1947–1965, 1870–1944), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.2.
Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology is Q1 in Ophthalmology (rank 24 of 147), Q1 in Sensory Systems (rank 11 of 43) and Q3 in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (rank 57 of 102), by CiteScore 2025.
Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology 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 5.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.073, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 121.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,990 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.
Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0721-832X and its online ISSN is 1435-702X.
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.
Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology has an h-index of 146 and a 2-year mean of 2.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #34 of 146 Scopus journals in Ophthalmology.
Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology published 337 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 474. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (19.4%), Türkiye (16.2%) and Japan (11.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 10 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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