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Optica Pura y Aplicada is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.9), WoS ESCI. Published by Sociedad Espanola de Optica.
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ISSN 0030-3917Verify ISSN ↗2171-8814Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sociedad Espanola de Optica
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 599 / 740 | 19th | Q4 |
| Engineering (miscellaneous) | 244 / 300 | 18th | Q4 |
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 208 / 243 | 14th | Q4 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 273 / 318 | 14th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.9.
Optica Pura y Aplicada is Q4 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 599 of 740), Q4 in Engineering (miscellaneous) (rank 244 of 300) and Q4 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 208 of 243), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Optica Pura y Aplicada 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 19th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.133, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 14.
Optica Pura y Aplicada is published by Sociedad Espanola de Optica. Its print ISSN is 0030-3917 and its online ISSN is 2171-8814.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Optica Pura y Aplicada has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 0.49 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #496 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Optica Pura y Aplicada published 49 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 57. 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 82 research articles (2023–2025), authors are most often from Spain (25.6%), Mexico (24.4%) and Argentina (23.2%).
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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