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Journal of Biophotonics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1864-063XVerify ISSN ↗1864-0648Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$3,370 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering (all) | 104 / 351 | 70th | Q2 |
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 78 / 248 | 68th | Q2 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 89 / 223 | 60th | Q2 |
| Chemistry (all) | 173 / 402 | 57th | Q2 |
| Materials Science (all) | 225 / 475 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.3.
Journal of Biophotonics is Q2 in Engineering (all) (rank 104 of 351), Q2 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 78 of 248) and Q2 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 89 of 223), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Biophotonics 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 4.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.504, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 88.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,370 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.
Journal of Biophotonics is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 1864-063X and its online ISSN is 1864-0648.
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.
Journal of Biophotonics has an h-index of 93 and a 2-year mean of 2.01 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #104 of 299 Scopus journals in Engineering (all).
Journal of Biophotonics published 286 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 364. 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 China (30.3%), United States (13.4%) and Brazil (8.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (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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