Optics: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

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

(The Journal Impact Factor, or JIF, denotes the average number of citations a paper of a given journal accrues within a two-year timespan, as calculated by Clarivate Analytics' database Web of Science; note that the journal coverage here at OOIR might deviate slightly from Web of Science's. The JIFs that used to have more than one decimal point are rounded here for copyright-related reasons.)

Rank	Journal	Impact Factor 2025
1	Nature Photonics	ca. 38.1
2	Advances in Optics and Photonics	ca. 30.1
3	Opto-Electronic Advances	ca. 22.4
4	Advanced Photonics	ca. 19.5
5	Progress in Quantum Electronics	ca. 10.8
6	Laser & Photonics Reviews	ca. 9.7
7	Optica	ca. 8.8
8	Advanced Optical Materials	ca. 7.2
9	Photonics Research	ca. 7.1
10	Nanophotonics	ca. 6.8
11	High Power Laser Science and Engineering	ca. 6.1
12	ACS Photonics	ca. 6
13	APL Photonics	ca. 5.7
14	Optical Switching and Networking	ca. 5.5
15	Journal of Lightwave Technology	ca. 5.2
-	Optics and Laser Technology	ca. 5.2
17	Journal of Optical Communications and Networking	ca. 5.1
18	Image and Vision Computing	ca. 5
19	Photonic Sensors	ca. 4.6
20	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics	ca. 4.5
-	International Journal of Photoenergy	ca. 4.5
22	Optical Materials	ca. 4.3
-	Advanced Quantum Technologies	ca. 4.3
24	Optics and Lasers in Engineering	ca. 4.2
25	Displays	ca. 3.9
26	Infrared Physics & Technology	ca. 3.8
-	Journal of Luminescence	ca. 3.8
28	Neurophotonics	ca. 3.6
-	IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology	ca. 3.6
30	Photonics and Nanostructures-Fundamentals and Applications	ca. 3.5
31	Optics Express	ca. 3.4
32	Microelectronic Engineering	ca. 3.3
-	Optics Letters	ca. 3.3
-	Journal of Biomedical Optics	ca. 3.3
35	Biomedical Optics Express	ca. 3.2
36	Journal of Infrared Millimeter and Terahertz Waves	ca. 3.1
37	International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology	ca. 3
38	Ukrainian Journal of Physical Optics	ca. 2.7
-	Optical Fiber Technology	ca. 2.7
-	Optics Communications	ca. 2.7
41	Journal of Optics	ca. 2.6
-	IEEE Photonics Journal	ca. 2.6
-	Optical Materials Express	ca. 2.6
44	Chinese Optics Letters	ca. 2.5
-	Journal of Photonics for Energy	ca. 2.5
46	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters	ca. 2.4
47	JM3: Journal of Micro-Nanopatterning Materials and Metrology	ca. 2.3
48	Journal of Laser Applications	ca. 2.1
-	Photonics	ca. 2.1
50	Journal of Biophotonics	ca. 2

-	Journal of the Society for Information disPlay	ca. 2
-	Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer	ca. 2
-	Color Research and Application	ca. 2
54	IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics	ca. 1.9
-	Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences	ca. 1.9
-	Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics	ca. 1.9
57	Applied Physics B-Lasers and Optics	ca. 1.8
-	European Physical Journal D	ca. 1.8
59	Journal of Physics B-Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics	ca. 1.7
-	International Journal of Optics	ca. 1.7
-	Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications	ca. 1.7
-	Leukos	ca. 1.7
-	Applied Optics	ca. 1.7
64	Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology	ca. 1.6
65	Journal of the Optical Society of America A-Optics Image Science and Vision	ca. 1.5
-	Laser Physics Letters	ca. 1.5
-	Photonic Network Communications	ca. 1.5
-	Fiber and Integrated Optics	ca. 1.5
-	Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems	ca. 1.5
70	Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics & Materials	ca. 1.4
71	Optical Engineering	ca. 1.2
72	Laser Physics	ca. 1.1
-	Microwave and Optical Technology Letters	ca. 1.1
74	Journal of Nanophotonics	ca. 1
-	Journal of Russian Laser Research	ca. 1
-	Optical Review	ca. 1
-	Journal of Electronic Imaging	ca. 1
-	Journal of Laser Micro Nanoengineering	ca. 1
79	Journal of Modern Optics	ca. 0.9
-	Opto-Electronics Review	ca. 0.9
81	Optics and Spectroscopy	ca. 0.7
82	Journal of Optical Technology	ca. 0.4