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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Light-Science & Applications	80
-	Nature Photonics	80
3	Advanced Optical Materials	70
4	Optics Express	64
5	Optica	58
6	Optics and Laser Technology	56
-	Laser & Photonics Reviews	56
8	ACS Photonics	54
9	Optik	53
10	Optical Materials	50
11	Nanophotonics	49
12	Photonics Research	48
13	Journal of Lightwave Technology	46
14	Optics Letters	45
15	Optical and Quantum Electronics	43
16	Optics and Lasers in Engineering	42
17	Journal of Luminescence	38
18	Optics Communications	35
-	Advanced Photonics	35
20	Opto-Electronic Advances	34
21	APL Photonics	33
-	Biomedical Optics Express	33
23	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics	32
24	Infrared Physics & Technology	31
-	Optical Materials Express	31
26	Applied Optics	30
27	Image and Vision Computing	28
28	Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics	27
-	Advanced Quantum Technologies	27
30	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters	26
-	International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology	26
32	Optical Fiber Technology	25
-	Journal of Optical Communications and Networking	25
34	IEEE Photonics Journal	24
-	Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer	24
-	Journal of Biomedical Optics	24
37	Photonics	23
-	Journal of Optics	23
-	Advances in Optics and Photonics	23
40	Chinese Optics Letters	22
-	Journal of Biophotonics	22
-	Applied Physics B-Lasers and Optics	22
43	Displays	21
-	IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology	21
-	International Journal of Photoenergy	21
-	Journal of the Optical Society of America A-Optics Image Science and Vision	21
47	Optical Engineering	20
48	European Physical Journal D	19
-	Microwave and Optical Technology Letters	19
-	Photonics and Nanostructures-Fundamentals and Applications	19

51	Neurophotonics	18
-	Ukrainian Journal of Physical Optics	18
53	Journal of Laser Applications	17
-	Photonic Sensors	17
-	Progress in Quantum Electronics	17
-	Laser Physics Letters	17
57	Laser Physics	16
-	Microelectronic Engineering	16
-	High Power Laser Science and Engineering	16
-	Journal of Physics B-Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics	16
61	IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics	15
-	Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems	15
-	Journal of Infrared Millimeter and Terahertz Waves	15
-	Journal of the Society for Information disPlay	15
65	Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology	14
-	Color Research and Application	14
67	Journal of Modern Optics	13
-	Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences	13
69	Lighting Research & Technology	12
-	Journal of Electronic Imaging	12
-	Photonic Network Communications	12
72	Optical Switching and Networking	11
-	Journal of Nanophotonics	11
74	International Journal of Optics	10
-	Leukos	10
-	Optical Review	10
77	Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics & Materials	9
-	Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications	9
-	Journal of Russian Laser Research	9
-	Optics and Spectroscopy	9
81	Journal of Photonics for Energy	8
82	Fiber and Integrated Optics	6
-	Light & Engineering	6
84	Journal of Optical Technology	5
85	Journal of Laser Micro Nanoengineering	4