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Photonics Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.4), WoS SCIE. Published by Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA).
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ISSN 2327-9125Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 19 / 243 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 33 / 318 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.4.
Photonics Research is Q1 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 19 of 243) and Q1 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 33 of 318), by CiteScore 2025.
Photonics Research 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 12.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.836, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 103.
Photonics Research is published by Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA). Its ISSN is 2327-9125.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Photonics Research has an h-index of 112 and a 2-year mean of 5.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #34 of 222 Scopus journals in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.
Photonics Research published 428 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 43 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (79.1%), United States (4.7%) and Italy (4.7%). 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.
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