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Progress in Optics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4). Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0079-6638Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surfaces and Interfaces | 30 / 63 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 161 / 318 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1983–present (also 1980–1981, 1976–1978, 1969–1974, 1963–1967, 1961), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.
Progress in Optics is Q2 in Surfaces and Interfaces (rank 30 of 63) and Q3 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 161 of 318), by CiteScore 2025.
Progress in Optics 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 4, quartile Q2, 53rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Progress in Optics is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 0079-6638.
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 Optics has an h-index of 74 and a 2-year mean of 0.57 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #51 of 59 Scopus journals in Surfaces and Interfaces.
Progress in Optics published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 16. 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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