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Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.6), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1572-1000Verify ISSN ↗1873-1597Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dermatology | 23 / 152 | 85th | Q1 |
| Pharmacology (medical) | 84 / 278 | 69th | Q2 |
| Oncology | 131 / 428 | 69th | Q2 |
| Biophysics | 49 / 155 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.6.
Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy is Q1 in Dermatology (rank 23 of 152), Q2 in Pharmacology (medical) (rank 84 of 278) and Q2 in Oncology (rank 131 of 428), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy 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 5.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.609, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 82.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,610 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.
Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 1572-1000 and its online ISSN is 1873-1597.
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.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy has an h-index of 89 and a 2-year mean of 1.98 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #38 of 144 Scopus journals in Dermatology.
Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy published 852 papers in 2025. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (57.7%), Iran (10.2%) and Japan (5.1%). 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. 6 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 3 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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