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Guangzi Xuebao/Acta Photonica Sinica is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Chinese Optical Society.
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ISSN 1004-4213Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Chinese Optical Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 184 / 243 | 24th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.6.
Guangzi Xuebao/Acta Photonica Sinica is Q4 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 184 of 243), by CiteScore 2025.
Guangzi Xuebao/Acta Photonica Sinica is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 24th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.219, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 27.
Guangzi Xuebao/Acta Photonica Sinica is published by Chinese Optical Society. Its ISSN is 1004-4213.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Guangzi Xuebao/Acta Photonica Sinica has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 0.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #185 of 222 Scopus journals in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.
Guangzi Xuebao/Acta Photonica Sinica published 232 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 377. 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.
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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