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Photoacoustics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 13.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Elsevier GmbH.
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ISSN 2213-5979Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier GmbH
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging | 9 / 361 | 97th | Q1 |
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 17 / 243 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 13.9.
Photoacoustics is Q1 in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (rank 9 of 361) and Q1 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 17 of 243), by CiteScore 2025.
Photoacoustics 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 13.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.557, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 66.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,200 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.
Photoacoustics is published by Elsevier GmbH. Its ISSN is 2213-5979.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Photoacoustics has an h-index of 73 and a 2-year mean of 7.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 13.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #5 of 346 Scopus journals in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.
Photoacoustics published 108 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 133. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (45%), United States (19.4%) and South Korea (4.6%).
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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