Optics: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Photonics	88
2	Optics and Laser Technology	63
3	Laser & Photonics Reviews	62
4	Optics Express	56
5	Optik	53
6	Journal of Lightwave Technology	51
-	Optical Materials	51
8	Optical and Quantum Electronics	49
9	Optics Letters	44
10	Journal of Luminescence	38
11	Optics and Lasers in Engineering	37
12	Optics Communications	33
13	Infrared Physics & Technology	31
14	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics	30
15	Image and Vision Computing	29
16	Advances in Optics and Photonics	28
17	Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics	27
-	Displays	27
19	IEEE Photonics Journal	26
-	International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology	26
-	Applied Optics	26
-	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters	26
-	Optical Fiber Technology	26
24	Journal of Optical Communications and Networking	25
25	International Journal of Photoenergy	24
26	Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer	23
-	Journal of Biomedical Optics	23
-	Journal of Optics	23
29	Microelectronic Engineering	21
30	Applied Physics B-Lasers and Optics	20
-	Progress in Quantum Electronics	20
32	Journal of Biophotonics	18
-	Optical Engineering	18
-	Chinese Optics Letters	18
-	Journal of the Optical Society of America A-Optics Image Science and Vision	18
-	Microwave and Optical Technology Letters	18
37	European Physical Journal D	17
-	Journal of Infrared Millimeter and Terahertz Waves	17
-	Photonics and Nanostructures-Fundamentals and Applications	17
40	Ukrainian Journal of Physical Optics	16
-	Journal of Electronic Imaging	16
-	Journal of Physics B-Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics	16
43	Journal of Laser Applications	15
-	Laser Physics Letters	15
45	Photonic Sensors	14
46	IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics	13
-	Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics & Materials	13
-	Laser Physics	13
49	Color Research and Application	12
-	Optical Switching and Networking	12

-	Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences	12
-	Journal of the Society for Information disPlay	12
-	Lighting Research & Technology	12
54	Photonic Network Communications	11
55	Journal of Modern Optics	10
-	Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications	10
-	Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology	10
-	Optical Review	10
59	Journal of Photonics for Energy	9
60	Leukos	8
-	International Journal of Optics	8
62	Fiber and Integrated Optics	7
-	Journal of Nanophotonics	7
-	Journal of Russian Laser Research	7
65	Journal of Optical Technology	6
-	Optics and Spectroscopy	6
67	Journal of Laser Micro Nanoengineering	2