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Pakistan Journal of Ophthalmology is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.3), DOAJ. Published by Journal Of Ophthalmology (Pjo).
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ISSN 0886-3067Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Journal Of Ophthalmology (Pjo)
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ophthalmology | 125 / 147 | 15th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present (also 1985–1989), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.3.
Pakistan Journal of Ophthalmology is Q4 in Ophthalmology (rank 125 of 147), by CiteScore 2025.
Pakistan Journal of Ophthalmology 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 0.3, quartile Q4, 15th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.124, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 6.
Pakistan Journal of Ophthalmology is published by Journal Of Ophthalmology (Pjo). Its ISSN is 0886-3067.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Pakistan Journal of Ophthalmology has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #121 of 146 Scopus journals in Ophthalmology.
Pakistan Journal of Ophthalmology published 106 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 150. 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 78 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Pakistan (59.6%), Indonesia (14.7%) and India (9%). 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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