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Progress in Optical Science and Photonics is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.9). Published by Springer.
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ISSN 2363-5096Verify ISSN ↗2363-510XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 275 / 318 | 13th | Q4 |
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 211 / 243 | 13th | Q4 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 302 / 342 | 11th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.9.
Progress in Optical Science and Photonics is Q4 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 275 of 318), Q4 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 211 of 243) and Q4 in Biomedical Engineering (rank 302 of 342), by CiteScore 2025.
Progress in Optical Science and Photonics 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 0.9, quartile Q4, 13th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Progress in Optical Science and Photonics is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 2363-5096 and its online ISSN is 2363-510X.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Progress in Optical Science and Photonics has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #227 of 269 Scopus journals in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.
Progress in Optical Science and Photonics published 107 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.
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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