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Photonics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI).
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ISSN 2304-6732Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instrumentation | 73 / 206 | 64th | Q2 |
| Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging | 140 / 361 | 61st | Q2 |
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 120 / 243 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.9.
Photonics is Q2 in Instrumentation (rank 73 of 206), Q2 in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (rank 140 of 361) and Q2 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 120 of 243), by CiteScore 2025.
Photonics 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 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.441, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 51.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,896 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.
Photonics is published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). Its ISSN is 2304-6732.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Photonics has an h-index of 60 and a 2-year mean of 2.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #49 of 146 Scopus journals in Instrumentation.
Photonics published 1,263 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 1,393. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (69%), South Korea (6.5%) and United States (4.5%). 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.
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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