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Ukrainian Journal of Physical Optics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.6), WoS SCIE. Published by Institute of Physical Optics.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1609-1833Verify ISSN ↗1816-2002Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institute of Physical Optics
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 28 / 243 | 88th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.6.
Ukrainian Journal of Physical Optics is Q1 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 28 of 243), by CiteScore 2025.
Ukrainian Journal of Physical Optics 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 9.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.662, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 24.
Ukrainian Journal of Physical Optics is published by Institute of Physical Optics. Its print ISSN is 1609-1833 and its online ISSN is 1816-2002.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Ukrainian Journal of Physical Optics has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 2.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #114 of 222 Scopus journals in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.
Ukrainian Journal of Physical Optics published 34 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 41. 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Ukraine (39.3%), China (12.5%) and Saudi Arabia (6%).
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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