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Photobiomodulation, Photomedicine, and Laser Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.9), WoS SCIE. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 2578-5478Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging | 136 / 361 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 192 / 342 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.9.
Photobiomodulation, Photomedicine, and Laser Surgery is Q2 in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (rank 136 of 361) and Q3 in Biomedical Engineering (rank 192 of 342), by CiteScore 2025.
Photobiomodulation, Photomedicine, and Laser Surgery 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.369, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 35.
Photobiomodulation, Photomedicine, and Laser Surgery is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its ISSN is 2578-5478.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Photobiomodulation, Photomedicine, and Laser Surgery has an h-index of 38 and a 2-year mean of 1.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #187 of 346 Scopus journals in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.
Photobiomodulation, Photomedicine, and Laser Surgery published 71 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 136. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (21.9%), United States (11.1%) and Brazil (10.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (1.2 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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