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Journal of Photonics for Energy is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SPIE.
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ISSN 1947-7988Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SPIE
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 101 / 243 | 58th | Q2 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 172 / 345 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.5.
Journal of Photonics for Energy is Q2 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 101 of 243) and Q2 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 172 of 345), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Photonics for Energy 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 58th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.391, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 37.
Journal of Photonics for Energy is published by SPIE. Its ISSN is 1947-7988.
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 Photonics for Energy has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 3.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #66 of 222 Scopus journals in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.
Journal of Photonics for Energy published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 80. 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 (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (23.8%), China (23.1%) and Japan (6.3%).
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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