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Photonic Network Communications is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Netherlands.
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ISSN 1387-974XVerify ISSN ↗1572-8188Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Cost to publish: About US$2,990 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Networks and Communications | 186 / 568 | 67th | Q2 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 341 / 1030 | 66th | Q2 |
| Hardware and Architecture | 95 / 245 | 61st | Q2 |
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 95 / 243 | 61st | Q2 |
| Software | 210 / 503 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.7.
Photonic Network Communications is Q2 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 186 of 568), Q2 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 341 of 1030) and Q2 in Hardware and Architecture (rank 95 of 245), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Photonic Network Communications 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 4.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.384, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 49.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,990 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.
Photonic Network Communications is published by Springer Netherlands. Its print ISSN is 1387-974X and its online ISSN is 1572-8188.
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.
Photonic Network Communications has an h-index of 48 and a 2-year mean of 1.75 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #226 of 394 Scopus journals in Computer Networks and Communications.
Photonic Network Communications published 11 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 67. 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 99 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from India (38%), China (13.1%) and Iran (11.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.5 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.
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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