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Springer Series in Optical Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.2). Published by Springer Verlag.
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ISSN 0342-4111Verify ISSN ↗1556-1534Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 246 / 318 | 22nd | 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 2005–present (also 1979–1985, 1976), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.2.
Springer Series in Optical Sciences is Q4 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 246 of 318), by CiteScore 2025.
Springer Series in Optical Sciences 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 1.2, quartile Q4, 22nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Springer Series in Optical Sciences is published by Springer Verlag. Its print ISSN is 0342-4111 and its online ISSN is 1556-1534.
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.
Springer Series in Optical Sciences has an h-index of 104 and a 2-year mean of 0.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #253 of 269 Scopus journals in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.
Springer Series in Optical Sciences published 74 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 156. 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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