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Lasers in Dental Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer International Publishing AG.
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ISSN 2367-2587Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
Cost to publish: About US$3,790 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dentistry (miscellaneous) | 26 / 66 | 61st | Q2 |
| Orthodontics | 25 / 53 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Periodontics | 21 / 36 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Oral Surgery | 52 / 87 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.
Lasers in Dental Science is Q2 in Dentistry (miscellaneous) (rank 26 of 66), Q2 in Orthodontics (rank 25 of 53) and Q3 in Periodontics (rank 21 of 36), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Lasers in Dental Science is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q2, 61st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.168, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 11.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,790 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.
Lasers in Dental Science is published by Springer International Publishing AG. Its ISSN is 2367-2587.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Lasers in Dental Science has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 0.6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #25 of 65 Scopus journals in Dentistry (miscellaneous).
Lasers in Dental Science published 45 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 58. 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 96 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Brazil (18.6%), India (14.6%) and Egypt (14.3%).
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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