Optics Letters

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Optics Letters

description Scientific journal
Area of ​​Expertise optics
language English
publishing company The Optical Society ( USA )
First edition 1977
Frequency of publication biweekly
Impact Factor 3,866 (2018)
editor Xi-Cheng Zhang
Web link osapublishing.org/ol
ISSN (print) 0146-9592
ISSN (online) 1539-4794

Optics Letters (abbreviation according to ISO 4 : Opt. Lett. , Often abbreviated as OL) is a scientific journal with peer review , which exists since 1977 and by the Optical Society (OSA, formerly Optical Society of America ) issued is.

The articles in Optics Letters appear online regardless of issue; the magazine issues appear biweekly on the 1st and 15th of each month, both online and in print.

The thematic area of ​​the articles in Optics Letters includes original research from all areas of optics and photonics . The length of the article is limited to four pages.

With an Impact Factor (IF) of 3.866 for 2018, the journal ranks sixteenth among 95 journals in the field of optics in the statistics of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The ranking has deteriorated significantly over the past few years; for the year 2000 the magazine still had the third highest IF in its subject area among 57 titles at the time. In terms of the absolute number of citations, the journal still ranks third among the optics journals listed in the JCR with 70,631 citations from 2018 and 12th among the 320 physics journals listed there.

Scientific editor of Optics Letters is Xi-Cheng Zhang from the University of Rochester ( USA ); his deputies are Carsten Rockstuhl from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), Andrea Galtarossa from the University of Padua ( Italy ) and Edward Whittaker from the Stevens Institute of Technology (USA).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Journal Citation Reports. Institute for Scientific Information , accessed July 27, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b OSA Journals. The Optical Society , accessed March 19, 2017 .
  3. ^ A b OSA Publishing: Optics Letters. The Optical Society , accessed July 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ OSA Author Style Guide. AO, AOP, JOSA A, JOSA B, OL, Optica, Photonics Research. The Optical Society , accessed March 19, 2017 .