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Optics and Photonics News is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.2). Published by Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA).
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ISSN 1047-6938Verify ISSN ↗1541-3721Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 748 / 1030 | 27th | Q3 |
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 192 / 243 | 21st | Q4 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 251 / 318 | 21st | Q4 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 377 / 446 | 15th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.2.
Optics and Photonics News is Q3 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 748 of 1030), Q4 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 192 of 243) and Q4 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 251 of 318), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Optics and Photonics News is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q3, 27th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.249, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 56.
Optics and Photonics News is published by Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA). Its print ISSN is 1047-6938 and its online ISSN is 1541-3721.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Optics and Photonics News has an h-index of 64 and a 2-year mean of 0.63 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #562 of 744 Scopus journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Optics and Photonics News published 38 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 74. 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.
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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