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Microwave and Optical Technology Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc..
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ISSN 0895-2477Verify ISSN ↗1098-2760Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$2,470 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 548 / 1030 | 46th | Q3 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 199 / 318 | 37th | Q3 |
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 153 / 243 | 37th | Q3 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 296 / 446 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.5.
Microwave and Optical Technology Letters is Q3 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 548 of 1030), Q3 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 199 of 318) and Q3 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 153 of 243), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Microwave and Optical Technology Letters 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 46th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.267, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 86.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,470 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.
Microwave and Optical Technology Letters is published by John Wiley & Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 0895-2477 and its online ISSN is 1098-2760.
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.
Microwave and Optical Technology Letters has an h-index of 93 and a 2-year mean of 1.24 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #464 of 744 Scopus journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Microwave and Optical Technology Letters published 451 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 728. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (68.8%), India (9.9%) and South Korea (4.2%). 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. 12 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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