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Spectroscopy (Santa Monica) is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.3), WoS SCIE. Published by Advanstar Communications Inc..
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ISSN 0887-6703Verify ISSN ↗1939-1900Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Advanstar Communications Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 158 / 243 | 35th | Q3 |
| Spectroscopy | 62 / 81 | 24th | Q4 |
| Analytical Chemistry | 125 / 160 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.3.
Spectroscopy (Santa Monica) is Q3 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 158 of 243), Q4 in Spectroscopy (rank 62 of 81) and Q4 in Analytical Chemistry (rank 125 of 160), by CiteScore 2025.
Spectroscopy (Santa Monica) 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 2.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 35th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.451, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 35.
Spectroscopy (Santa Monica) is published by Advanstar Communications Inc. Its print ISSN is 0887-6703 and its online ISSN is 1939-1900.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Spectroscopy (Santa Monica) has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 1.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #147 of 222 Scopus journals in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.
Spectroscopy (Santa Monica) published 65 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 80. 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 32 research articles (2024–2025), authors are most often from China (34.4%), United States (32.8%) and Japan (12.5%).
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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