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IEEE Photonics Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
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ISSN 1943-0647Verify ISSN ↗1943-0655Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 276 / 1030 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 75 / 243 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.8.
IEEE Photonics Journal is Q2 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 276 of 1030) and Q2 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 75 of 243), by CiteScore 2025.
IEEE Photonics Journal 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 5.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.553, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 105.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,075 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.
IEEE Photonics Journal is published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. Its print ISSN is 1943-0647 and its online ISSN is 1943-0655.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
IEEE Photonics Journal has an h-index of 113 and a 2-year mean of 2.81 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #266 of 744 Scopus journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
IEEE Photonics Journal published 276 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 713. 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (59.4%), United States (4.7%) and Canada (4.3%). 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.
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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