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Optics and Spectroscopy (English translation of Optika i Spektroskopiya) is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Pleiades Publishing.
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ISSN 0030-400XVerify ISSN ↗1562-6911Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 216 / 243 | 11th | Q4 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 286 / 318 | 10th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present (also 1991–1992, 1972–1975), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.7.
Optics and Spectroscopy (English translation of Optika i Spektroskopiya) is Q4 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 216 of 243) and Q4 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 286 of 318), by CiteScore 2025.
Optics and Spectroscopy (English translation of Optika i Spektroskopiya) 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 11th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.141, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 47.
Optics and Spectroscopy (English translation of Optika i Spektroskopiya) is published by Pleiades Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0030-400X and its online ISSN is 1562-6911.
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 Spectroscopy (English translation of Optika i Spektroskopiya) has an h-index of 51 and a 2-year mean of 0.57 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #180 of 222 Scopus journals in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.
Optics and Spectroscopy (English translation of Optika i Spektroskopiya) published 10 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 305. 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 96 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Russia (99.5%) and Ukraine (0.5%). 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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