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Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Inc..
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ISSN 0146-0404Verify ISSN ↗1552-5783Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Inc.
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ophthalmology | 23 / 147 | 84th | Q1 |
| Sensory Systems | 10 / 43 | 77th | Q1 |
| Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience | 54 / 102 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1977–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.3.
Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science is Q1 in Ophthalmology (rank 23 of 147), Q1 in Sensory Systems (rank 10 of 43) and Q3 in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (rank 54 of 102), by CiteScore 2025.
Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 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 5.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.274, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 268.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,850 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.
Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science is published by Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Inc. Its print ISSN is 0146-0404 and its online ISSN is 1552-5783.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science has an h-index of 262 and a 2-year mean of 3.74 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #16 of 146 Scopus journals in Ophthalmology.
Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science published 835 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 5,676. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (32.6%), China (30.3%) and United Kingdom (5.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 11 retracted papers are recorded (0.1 per 1,000 papers). 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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