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Laser Physics is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Institute of Physics Publishing.
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ISSN 1054-660XVerify ISSN ↗1555-6611Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$3,325 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instrumentation | 105 / 206 | 49th | Q3 |
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 230 / 425 | 46th | Q3 |
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 162 / 243 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 308 / 446 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.3.
Laser Physics is Q3 in Instrumentation (rank 105 of 206), Q3 in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (rank 230 of 425) and Q3 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 162 of 243), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Laser 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 2.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 49th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.271, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 65.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,325 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.
Laser Physics is published by Institute of Physics Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1054-660X and its online ISSN is 1555-6611.
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.
Laser Physics has an h-index of 60 and a 2-year mean of 1.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #92 of 146 Scopus journals in Instrumentation.
Laser Physics published 112 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 347. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (64.5%), Russia (6.1%) and Malaysia (3.9%). 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. 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.
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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