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Photonics Insights is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 31), DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SPIE.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering (miscellaneous) | 2 / 300 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 31.
Photonics Insights is Q1 in Engineering (miscellaneous) (rank 2 of 300), by CiteScore 2025.
Photonics Insights is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 31, quartile Q1, 99th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 6.191, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 22.
Photonics Insights is published by SPIE. Its ISSN is 2791-1748.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Photonics Insights has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 14.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 31, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 268 Scopus journals in Engineering (miscellaneous).
Photonics Insights published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 23. 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 57 research articles (2022–2025), authors are most often from China (46.2%), United States (20.2%) and Hong Kong SAR China (6.1%).
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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