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Optical Fiber Technology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Academic Press Inc..
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ISSN 1068-5200Verify ISSN ↗1095-9912Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Academic Press Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$2,360 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instrumentation | 41 / 206 | 80th | Q1 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 302 / 1030 | 70th | Q2 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 125 / 390 | 68th | Q2 |
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 81 / 243 | 66th | Q2 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 113 / 318 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present (also 1970), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.3.
Optical Fiber Technology is Q1 in Instrumentation (rank 41 of 206), Q2 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 302 of 1030) and Q2 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 125 of 390), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Optical Fiber Technology 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 5.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.538, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 82.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,360 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.
Optical Fiber Technology is published by Academic Press Inc. Its print ISSN is 1068-5200 and its online ISSN is 1095-9912.
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 Fiber Technology has an h-index of 85 and a 2-year mean of 2.94 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #41 of 146 Scopus journals in Instrumentation.
Optical Fiber Technology published 374 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 413. 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 95 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (62.1%), India (5.8%) and Malaysia (4.5%). 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. 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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