Light: Science & Applications

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Light: Science & Applications

description Scientific journal
Area of ​​Expertise optics
language English
publishing company Nature Publishing Group , Chinese Academy of Sciences ( UK , China )
First edition 2012
Frequency of publication biweekly
Impact Factor 14,000 (2018)
editor Cao Jianlin
Web link nature.com/lsa
ISSN (online)

Light: Science & Applications (abbreviation according to ISO 4 : .. Light-Sci Appl ) is a scientific journal with peer review , which exists since 2012 and as online magazine for the open-access model from the Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and of the Chinese Academy of Sciences .

The articles in Light: Science & Applications appear biweekly. They deal with original research from all areas of optics and photonics . In 2015, 69 articles were published (2014: 53, 2013: 37).

With an Impact Factor (IF) of 14,000 for 2018, the journal takes second place in the statistics of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) among 95 journals in the field of optics (behind Nature Photonics, also published by the NPG, and ahead of Advances in Optics and Photonics from the Optical Society ).

Scientific Editor of Light: Science & Applications is Cao Jianlin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ; his deputies are Cui Tianhong from the University of Minnesota ( USA ), Stefan Kaierle from the Laser Zentrum Hannover and Jia Ping from the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics and Sun Hongbo from Tsinghua University (both China ).

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Journal Citation Reports. Institute for Scientific Information , accessed July 27, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b c Light: Science & Applications - About the Journal. Nature Publishing Group , accessed July 27, 2019 .