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Optical Switching and Networking is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1573-4277Verify ISSN ↗1872-9770Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,530 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 181 / 1030 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Computer Networks and Communications | 112 / 568 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present (also 1970), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.6.
Optical Switching and Networking is Q1 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 181 of 1030) and Q1 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 112 of 568), by CiteScore 2025.
Optical Switching and Networking 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 7.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.615, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 35.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,530 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 Switching and Networking is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 1573-4277 and its online ISSN is 1872-9770.
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 Switching and Networking has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 1.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #383 of 744 Scopus journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Optical Switching and Networking published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 58. 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 92 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from China (29.7%), India (11.4%) and Germany (5.3%).
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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