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Optical Materials Express is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 6.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA).
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ISSN 2159-3930Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA)
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 86 / 318 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 6.3.
Optical Materials Express is Q2 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 86 of 318), by CiteScore 2025.
Optical Materials Express 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 6.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.651, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 94.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,843 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 Materials Express is published by Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA). Its ISSN is 2159-3930.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Optical Materials Express has an h-index of 98 and a 2-year mean of 2.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #126 of 269 Scopus journals in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.
Optical Materials Express published 238 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 455. 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 52 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (25%), United States (17.9%) and Japan (9.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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