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Optimization Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Verlag.
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ISSN 1862-4472Verify ISSN ↗1862-4480Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Cost to publish: About US$3,090 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control and Optimization | 63 / 198 | 68th | Q2 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) | 95 / 235 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.1.
Optimization Letters is Q2 in Control and Optimization (rank 63 of 198) and Q2 in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) (rank 95 of 235), by CiteScore 2025.
Optimization 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 3.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.589, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 60.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,090 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.
Optimization Letters is published by Springer Verlag. Its print ISSN is 1862-4472 and its online ISSN is 1862-4480.
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.
Optimization Letters has an h-index of 65 and a 2-year mean of 1.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #71 of 129 Scopus journals in Control and Optimization.
Optimization Letters published 90 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 160. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (19.7%), China (13.3%) and Italy (10.3%).
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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