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Laser and Optoelectronics Progress is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.1), WoS ESCI. Published by Chinese Laser Press.
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ISSN 1006-4125Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Chinese Laser Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 589 / 1030 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 171 / 243 | 29th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.1.
Laser and Optoelectronics Progress is Q3 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 589 of 1030) and Q3 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 171 of 243), by CiteScore 2025.
Laser and Optoelectronics Progress is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 42nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.234, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 23.
Laser and Optoelectronics Progress is published by Chinese Laser Press. Its ISSN is 1006-4125.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Laser and Optoelectronics Progress has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 1.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #489 of 744 Scopus journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Laser and Optoelectronics Progress published 1,003 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 1,080. 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.
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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