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Plasmonics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1557-1955Verify ISSN ↗1557-1963Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$4,090 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biophysics | 32 / 155 | 79th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry | 142 / 448 | 68th | Q2 |
| Biotechnology | 110 / 325 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.7.
Plasmonics is Q1 in Biophysics (rank 32 of 155), Q2 in Biochemistry (rank 142 of 448) and Q2 in Biotechnology (rank 110 of 325), by CiteScore 2025.
Plasmonics 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 6.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.640, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 80.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,090 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.
Plasmonics is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 1557-1955 and its online ISSN is 1557-1963.
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.
Plasmonics has an h-index of 90 and a 2-year mean of 8.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #6 of 154 Scopus journals in Biophysics.
Plasmonics published 637 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 (37.6%), India (18.7%) and Iraq (9.7%).
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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