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Light: Advanced Manufacturing is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 14), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Light Publishing Group.
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ISSN 2689-9620Verify ISSN ↗2831-4093Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Light Publishing Group
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instrumentation | 5 / 206 | 97th | Q1 |
| Metals and Alloys | 13 / 182 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 30 / 425 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Materials Science (miscellaneous) | 32 / 256 | 87th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 14.
Light: Advanced Manufacturing is Q1 in Instrumentation (rank 5 of 206), Q1 in Metals and Alloys (rank 13 of 182) and Q1 in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (rank 30 of 425), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Light: Advanced Manufacturing 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 14, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.130, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 37.
Light: Advanced Manufacturing is published by Light Publishing Group. Its print ISSN is 2689-9620 and its online ISSN is 2831-4093.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Light: Advanced Manufacturing has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 4.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 14, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #24 of 146 Scopus journals in Instrumentation.
Light: Advanced Manufacturing published 85 papers in 2025. 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 58 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (59.2%), South Korea (8.6%) and Russia (8.3%). 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.
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