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Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.9), WoS SCIE. Published by Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA).
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ISSN 0740-3224Verify ISSN ↗1520-8540Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Statistical and Nonlinear Physics | 25 / 63 | 61st | Q2 |
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 117 / 243 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1984–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.9.
Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics is Q2 in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (rank 25 of 63) and Q2 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 117 of 243), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.446, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 165.
Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics is published by Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA). Its print ISSN is 0740-3224 and its online ISSN is 1520-8540.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics has an h-index of 211 and a 2-year mean of 1.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #31 of 60 Scopus journals in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.
Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics published 364 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 624. 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 44 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (33%), India (6.8%) and Italy (5.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 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.
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