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Optics Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.9), WoS SCIE. Published by Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA).
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ISSN 0146-9592Verify ISSN ↗1539-4794Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 73 / 243 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1977–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.9.
Optics Letters is Q2 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 73 of 243), by CiteScore 2025.
Optics Letters 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 5.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.849, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 313.
Optics Letters is published by Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA). Its print ISSN is 0146-9592 and its online ISSN is 1539-4794.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal per Scopus.
Optics Letters has an h-index of 349 and a 2-year mean of 3.46 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #63 of 222 Scopus journals in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.
Optics Letters published 1,892 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 1,896. 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 48 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (70.8%), Germany (6.3%) and United States (5.2%). 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. 14 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.
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