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Optics and Lasers in Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0143-8166Verify ISSN ↗1873-0302Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,020 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 133 / 740 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 204 / 1030 | 80th | Q1 |
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 53 / 243 | 78th | Q1 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 75 / 318 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present (also 1980–1986), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.1.
Optics and Lasers in Engineering is Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 133 of 740), Q1 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 204 of 1030) and Q1 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 53 of 243), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Optics and Lasers in 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 7.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.824, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 138.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,020 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.
Optics and Lasers in Engineering is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0143-8166 and its online ISSN is 1873-0302.
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.
Optics and Lasers in Engineering has an h-index of 148 and a 2-year mean of 4.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #118 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Optics and Lasers in Engineering published 695 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 699. 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 84 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (84.5%), Colombia (2.4%) and Russia (2.4%). 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. 3 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 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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