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IET Optoelectronics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc..
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ISSN 1751-8768Verify ISSN ↗1751-8776Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 399 / 1030 | 61st | Q2 |
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 114 / 243 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.
IET Optoelectronics is Q2 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 399 of 1030) and Q2 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 114 of 243), by CiteScore 2025.
IET Optoelectronics 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, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.487, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 52.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,460 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.
IET Optoelectronics is published by John Wiley & Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 1751-8768 and its online ISSN is 1751-8776.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
IET Optoelectronics has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 3.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #202 of 744 Scopus journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
IET Optoelectronics published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 61. 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 98 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from China (26.4%), Iran (16.3%) and United Kingdom (9.8%).
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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