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Nature Photonics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 51.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Nature Research.
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ISSN 1749-4885Verify ISSN ↗1749-4893Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Nature Research
Cost to publish: About US$12,690 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 2 / 243 | 99th | Q1 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 5 / 318 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 51.9.
Nature Photonics is Q1 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 2 of 243) and Q1 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 5 of 318), by CiteScore 2025.
Nature Photonics 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 51.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 12.491, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 429.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$12,690 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.
Nature Photonics is published by Nature Research. Its print ISSN is 1749-4885 and its online ISSN is 1749-4893.
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.
Nature Photonics has an h-index of 461 and a 2-year mean of 25.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 51.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 222 Scopus journals in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.
Nature Photonics published 236 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 268. 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 89 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (35.5%), United States (15.1%) and Germany (6.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 6 retracted papers are recorded (1.1 per 1,000 papers). 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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