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IEEE Photonics Technology Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
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ISSN 1041-1135Verify ISSN ↗1941-0174Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$2,645 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 335 / 1030 | 67th | Q2 |
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 91 / 243 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 128 / 318 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.8.
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters is Q2 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 335 of 1030), Q2 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 91 of 243) and Q2 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 128 of 318), by CiteScore 2025.
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.603, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 178.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,645 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 Technology Letters is published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. Its print ISSN is 1041-1135 and its online ISSN is 1941-0174.
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.
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters has an h-index of 178 and a 2-year mean of 1.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #416 of 744 Scopus journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters published 629 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 816. 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 87 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (63.6%), India (6.9%) and Taiwan (4%). 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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