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Infrared and Laser Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.1). Published by Science Press.
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ISSN 1007-2276Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Science Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 584 / 1030 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Aerospace Engineering | 103 / 169 | 39th | Q3 |
| Space and Planetary Science | 70 / 105 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 170 / 243 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.1.
Infrared and Laser Engineering is Q3 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 584 of 1030), Q3 in Aerospace Engineering (rank 103 of 169) and Q3 in Space and Planetary Science (rank 70 of 105), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Infrared and Laser Engineering is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q3, 43rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.260, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 34.
Infrared and Laser Engineering is published by Science Press. Its ISSN is 1007-2276.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Infrared and Laser Engineering has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #581 of 744 Scopus journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Infrared and Laser Engineering published 361 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 578. 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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