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Optical Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SPIE.
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ISSN 0091-3286Verify ISSN ↗1560-2303Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SPIE
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering (all) | 163 / 351 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 148 / 243 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present (also 1972–1991), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.6.
Optical Engineering is Q2 in Engineering (all) (rank 163 of 351) and Q3 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 148 of 243), by CiteScore 2025.
Optical Engineering 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 2.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 53rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.301, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 127.
Optical Engineering is published by SPIE. Its print ISSN is 0091-3286 and its online ISSN is 1560-2303.
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.
Optical Engineering has an h-index of 158 and a 2-year mean of 1.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #162 of 299 Scopus journals in Engineering (all).
Optical Engineering published 341 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 712. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (60.3%), United States (16.7%) and India (3.3%). 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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0 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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