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Optica Applicata is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1), WoS SCIE. Published by Wroclaw University of Science and Technology.
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ISSN 0078-5466Verify ISSN ↗1899-7015Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 202 / 243 | 17th | Q4 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 267 / 318 | 16th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–2025 (also 1988), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.
Optica Applicata is Q4 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 202 of 243) and Q4 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 267 of 318), by CiteScore 2025.
Optica Applicata 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 1, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 17th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.156, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 35.
Optica Applicata is published by Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. Its print ISSN is 0078-5466 and its online ISSN is 1899-7015.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Optica Applicata has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 0.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #194 of 222 Scopus journals in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.
Optica Applicata published 42 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 54. 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 13 research articles (2023–2024), authors are most often from China (46.2%), India (15.4%) and Kyrgyzstan (7.7%).
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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