Open Access
Open access

Photonics

MDPI
MDPI
ISSN: 23046732
SCImago
Q2
WOS
Q2
Impact factor
2.1
SJR
0.457
CiteScore
2.6
Categories
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Instrumentation
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
Areas
Medicine
Physics and Astronomy
Years of issue
2014-2025
journal names
Photonics
PHOTONICS-BASEL
Publications
4 876
Citations
21 576
h-index
41
Publications
4 449
Citations
19 638
Top-3 citing journals
Photonics
Photonics (2346 citations)
Optics Express
Optics Express (872 citations)
Sensors
Sensors (486 citations)
Top-3 countries
China (2503 publications)
Russia (557 publications)
USA (370 publications)
China (2460 publications)
Russia (530 publications)
USA (270 publications)

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Photonics
2346 citations, 10.87%
Optics Express
872 citations, 4.04%
Sensors
486 citations, 2.25%
Applied Optics
333 citations, 1.54%
Optics and Laser Technology
315 citations, 1.46%
Optical and Quantum Electronics
314 citations, 1.46%
Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
300 citations, 1.39%
Optics Letters
276 citations, 1.28%
Scientific Reports
261 citations, 1.21%
Journal of Lightwave Technology
257 citations, 1.19%
Optics Communications
252 citations, 1.17%
Physica Scripta
234 citations, 1.08%
Plasmonics
199 citations, 0.92%
Micromachines
192 citations, 0.89%
Nanomaterials
179 citations, 0.83%
Physical Review A
169 citations, 0.78%
Optical Fiber Technology
168 citations, 0.78%
Optik
157 citations, 0.73%
IEEE Access
155 citations, 0.72%
IEEE Sensors Journal
151 citations, 0.7%
Materials
143 citations, 0.66%
Applied Physics Letters
142 citations, 0.66%
Optics and Lasers in Engineering
138 citations, 0.64%
IEEE Photonics Journal
133 citations, 0.62%
Laser and Photonics Reviews
122 citations, 0.57%
Electronics (Switzerland)
119 citations, 0.55%
Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics
119 citations, 0.55%
Journal of Optics (India)
112 citations, 0.52%
Journal of Applied Physics
103 citations, 0.48%
Biomedical Optics Express
89 citations, 0.41%
Journal Physics D: Applied Physics
87 citations, 0.4%
Crystals
87 citations, 0.4%
Results in Physics
85 citations, 0.39%
ACS Photonics
83 citations, 0.38%
Optical Materials
82 citations, 0.38%
Frontiers in Physics
80 citations, 0.37%
Advanced Optical Materials
79 citations, 0.37%
Optical Engineering
79 citations, 0.37%
Physical Review B
79 citations, 0.37%
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
77 citations, 0.36%
Nanophotonics
77 citations, 0.36%
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
75 citations, 0.35%
Nature Communications
74 citations, 0.34%
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
73 citations, 0.34%
Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation
72 citations, 0.33%
Journal of Optics (United Kingdom)
70 citations, 0.32%
Journal of Biophotonics
68 citations, 0.32%
Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision
66 citations, 0.31%
Journal of Optical Communications
64 citations, 0.3%
Infrared Physics and Technology
63 citations, 0.29%
Optical Materials Express
62 citations, 0.29%
APL Photonics
62 citations, 0.29%
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
61 citations, 0.28%
Physical Review Applied
61 citations, 0.28%
Biosensors
56 citations, 0.26%
ACS applied materials & interfaces
52 citations, 0.24%
Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers & Short Notes
52 citations, 0.24%
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
51 citations, 0.24%
Photonics Research
50 citations, 0.23%
AIP Advances
50 citations, 0.23%
Heliyon
48 citations, 0.22%
Results in Optics
48 citations, 0.22%
Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics
47 citations, 0.22%
International Journal of Molecular Sciences
46 citations, 0.21%
Remote Sensing
45 citations, 0.21%
Physical Review Letters
43 citations, 0.2%
Mathematics
43 citations, 0.2%
Optica
43 citations, 0.2%
Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
42 citations, 0.19%
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
40 citations, 0.19%
Polymers
40 citations, 0.19%
Ceramics International
40 citations, 0.19%
AIP Conference Proceedings
40 citations, 0.19%
Symmetry
40 citations, 0.19%
Optical Memory and Neural Networks (Information Optics)
39 citations, 0.18%
IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
39 citations, 0.18%
Nanotechnology
39 citations, 0.18%
Energies
39 citations, 0.18%
Coatings
39 citations, 0.18%
Light: Science and Applications
38 citations, 0.18%
Nanoscale
37 citations, 0.17%
Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics
37 citations, 0.17%
Chinese Physics B
36 citations, 0.17%
Acta Physica Sinica
36 citations, 0.17%
Advanced Materials
36 citations, 0.17%
Molecules
35 citations, 0.16%
Laser Physics Letters
35 citations, 0.16%
Journal of Optical Communications and Networking
35 citations, 0.16%
Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science
35 citations, 0.16%
Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical
35 citations, 0.16%
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
34 citations, 0.16%
Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing
34 citations, 0.16%
Measurement Science and Technology
34 citations, 0.16%
Spectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
33 citations, 0.15%
Journal of Luminescence
33 citations, 0.15%
Advanced Functional Materials
33 citations, 0.15%
Small
33 citations, 0.15%
Advanced Photonics Research
33 citations, 0.15%
New Journal of Physics
32 citations, 0.15%
Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
32 citations, 0.15%
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MDPI
4793 citations, 22.21%
Elsevier
3211 citations, 14.88%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2286 citations, 10.6%
Springer Nature
2240 citations, 10.38%
Optica Publishing Group
2044 citations, 9.47%
IOP Publishing
993 citations, 4.6%
Wiley
964 citations, 4.47%
AIP Publishing
526 citations, 2.44%
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
491 citations, 2.28%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
447 citations, 2.07%
American Physical Society (APS)
442 citations, 2.05%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
267 citations, 1.24%
Pleiades Publishing
218 citations, 1.01%
Frontiers Media S.A.
199 citations, 0.92%
Walter de Gruyter
182 citations, 0.84%
Taylor & Francis
160 citations, 0.74%
Optical Society of India
63 citations, 0.29%
Hindawi Limited
54 citations, 0.25%
World Scientific
53 citations, 0.25%
Japan Society of Applied Physics
53 citations, 0.25%
Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics
49 citations, 0.23%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
43 citations, 0.2%
EDP Sciences
42 citations, 0.19%
Acta Physica Sinica, Chinese Physical Society and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
38 citations, 0.18%
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
37 citations, 0.17%
SAGE
35 citations, 0.16%
Allerton Press
35 citations, 0.16%
IntechOpen
32 citations, 0.15%
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
27 citations, 0.13%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
26 citations, 0.12%
The Russian Academy of Sciences
25 citations, 0.12%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
24 citations, 0.11%
Cambridge University Press
22 citations, 0.1%
Oxford University Press
22 citations, 0.1%
American Vacuum Society
21 citations, 0.1%
The Electrochemical Society
19 citations, 0.09%
Research Square Platform LLC
18 citations, 0.08%
Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk Journal
16 citations, 0.07%
Akademizdatcenter Nauka
16 citations, 0.07%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
15 citations, 0.07%
Science in China Press
15 citations, 0.07%
The Royal Society
14 citations, 0.06%
Institute of Electronics, Information and Communications Engineers (IEICE)
14 citations, 0.06%
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)
12 citations, 0.06%
Trans Tech Publications
11 citations, 0.05%
Mary Ann Liebert
11 citations, 0.05%
Opto-Electronic Advances
11 citations, 0.05%
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
10 citations, 0.05%
Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
10 citations, 0.05%
IGI Global
10 citations, 0.05%
IOS Press
9 citations, 0.04%
Emerald
9 citations, 0.04%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
9 citations, 0.04%
Tech Science Press
9 citations, 0.04%
F1000 Research
7 citations, 0.03%
Hans Publishers
7 citations, 0.03%
American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
6 citations, 0.03%
Alexandria University
6 citations, 0.03%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
6 citations, 0.03%
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
5 citations, 0.02%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
5 citations, 0.02%
PeerJ
5 citations, 0.02%
ASME International
5 citations, 0.02%
Technosphera JSC
5 citations, 0.02%
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Co. LTD Ukrinformnauka) (Publications)
5 citations, 0.02%
Scientific Research Publishing
5 citations, 0.02%
SLACK
5 citations, 0.02%
Image Processing Systems Institute of RAS
4 citations, 0.02%
Laser Institute of America
4 citations, 0.02%
ifmbe proceedings
4 citations, 0.02%
AME Publishing Company
4 citations, 0.02%
Brazilian Microwave and Optoelectronics Society
4 citations, 0.02%
Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften
4 citations, 0.02%
Publishing House for Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (Publications)
4 citations, 0.02%
Agrarian Science
4 citations, 0.02%
The Company of Biologists
3 citations, 0.01%
American Geophysical Union
3 citations, 0.01%
eLife Sciences Publications
3 citations, 0.01%
Annual Reviews
3 citations, 0.01%
Canadian Science Publishing
3 citations, 0.01%
S. Karger AG
3 citations, 0.01%
Media Sphere Publishing House
3 citations, 0.01%
National Research Mordovia State University MRSU
3 citations, 0.01%
Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
3 citations, 0.01%
Georg Thieme Verlag KG
2 citations, 0.01%
American Society for Microbiology
2 citations, 0.01%