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Journal of Luminescence is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0022-2313Verify ISSN ↗1872-7883Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,850 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biophysics | 24 / 155 | 84th | Q1 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 79 / 446 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 48 / 243 | 80th | Q1 |
| Chemistry (all) | 94 / 402 | 76th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry | 109 / 448 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1970–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.4.
Journal of Luminescence is Q1 in Biophysics (rank 24 of 155), Q1 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 79 of 446) and Q1 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 48 of 243), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Luminescence 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 7.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.556, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 143.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,850 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.
Journal of Luminescence is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0022-2313 and its online ISSN is 1872-7883.
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 Luminescence has an h-index of 159 and a 2-year mean of 3.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #31 of 154 Scopus journals in Biophysics.
Journal of Luminescence published 587 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 928. 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 89 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (53.1%), India (9.6%) and Japan (6.7%). 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. 9 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 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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