Progress in Optics

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CiteScore
3.2
Years of issue
2024-2025
journal names
Progress in Optics
Publications
916
Citations
16 989
h-index
60
Publications
85
Citations
4 577
Top-3 citing journals
Physical Review A
Physical Review A (1116 citations)
Optics Communications
Optics Communications (601 citations)
Optics Express
Optics Express (576 citations)
Top-3 organizations
University of Rochester
University of Rochester (45 publications)
Imperial College London
Imperial College London (9 publications)
University of Rochester
University of Rochester (2 publications)
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2 publications)
Top-3 countries
USA (141 publications)
Germany (29 publications)
Japan (28 publications)
USA (3 publications)
Belgium (2 publications)
Israel (2 publications)

Most cited in 5 years

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Citing journals

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Physical Review A
1116 citations, 6.57%
Optics Communications
601 citations, 3.54%
Optics Express
576 citations, 3.39%
Applied Optics
432 citations, 2.54%
Optics Letters
380 citations, 2.24%
Journal of Optics (United Kingdom)
344 citations, 2.02%
Physical Review Letters
330 citations, 1.94%
Journal of Modern Optics
315 citations, 1.85%
Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision
247 citations, 1.45%
Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics
224 citations, 1.32%
Scientific Reports
212 citations, 1.25%
Optik
200 citations, 1.18%
Physical Review E
189 citations, 1.11%
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
179 citations, 1.05%
Optical Engineering
163 citations, 0.96%
New Journal of Physics
153 citations, 0.9%
Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
147 citations, 0.87%
Optics and Lasers in Engineering
139 citations, 0.82%
Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
127 citations, 0.75%
Physica Scripta
120 citations, 0.71%
Applied Physics Letters
119 citations, 0.7%
Journal of Optics A Pure and Applied Optics
116 citations, 0.68%
Optics and Laser Technology
113 citations, 0.67%
Journal of Applied Physics
95 citations, 0.56%
Photonics
93 citations, 0.55%
Physical Review B
91 citations, 0.54%
IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
90 citations, 0.53%
Progress in Optics
86 citations, 0.51%
Physics of Plasmas
85 citations, 0.5%
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
78 citations, 0.46%
Europhysics Letters
76 citations, 0.45%
Optical and Quantum Electronics
76 citations, 0.45%
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
74 citations, 0.44%
Optics and Spectroscopy (English translation of Optika i Spektroskopiya)
72 citations, 0.42%
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
66 citations, 0.39%
Astronomy and Astrophysics
66 citations, 0.39%
Nature Communications
63 citations, 0.37%
Journal of Optics B Quantum and Semiclassical Optics
63 citations, 0.37%
Chinese Physics B
61 citations, 0.36%
Optica Acta International Journal of Optics
61 citations, 0.36%
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
60 citations, 0.35%
Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics
60 citations, 0.35%
Journal of Optics (India)
58 citations, 0.34%
European Physical Journal D
56 citations, 0.33%
Review of Scientific Instruments
53 citations, 0.31%
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
52 citations, 0.31%
Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
48 citations, 0.28%
Laser and Photonics Reviews
48 citations, 0.28%
Journal of Chemical Physics
46 citations, 0.27%
Springer Series in Optical Sciences
46 citations, 0.27%
Astrophysical Journal
45 citations, 0.26%
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
44 citations, 0.26%
Laser and Particle Beams
43 citations, 0.25%
Chinese Physics Letters
41 citations, 0.24%
Physical Review Research
40 citations, 0.24%
Physical Review Applied
39 citations, 0.23%
Physics Reports
38 citations, 0.22%
Quantum Information Processing
38 citations, 0.22%
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
37 citations, 0.22%
Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
37 citations, 0.22%
Chaos
34 citations, 0.2%
Journal Physics D: Applied Physics
34 citations, 0.2%
Optica
33 citations, 0.19%
Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena
32 citations, 0.19%
Journal of Lightwave Technology
32 citations, 0.19%
Results in Physics
32 citations, 0.19%
Nature Photonics
32 citations, 0.19%
Laser Physics
31 citations, 0.18%
Journal of Physics A General Physics
31 citations, 0.18%
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics
30 citations, 0.18%
Frontiers in Physics
29 citations, 0.17%
Annalen der Physik
29 citations, 0.17%
ACS Photonics
28 citations, 0.16%
Nanophotonics
28 citations, 0.16%
APL Photonics
28 citations, 0.16%
Acta Physica Sinica
28 citations, 0.16%
Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
26 citations, 0.15%
Reports on Progress in Physics
26 citations, 0.15%
Physical Review D
26 citations, 0.15%
Springer Handbooks
25 citations, 0.15%
International Journal of Theoretical Physics
25 citations, 0.15%
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
25 citations, 0.15%
Measurement Science and Technology
24 citations, 0.14%
Light: Science and Applications
23 citations, 0.14%
Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
23 citations, 0.14%
Quantum
23 citations, 0.14%
Optical Review
22 citations, 0.13%
Communications in Theoretical Physics
22 citations, 0.13%
Journal of Biomedical Optics
22 citations, 0.13%
AIP Conference Proceedings
22 citations, 0.13%
European Journal of Physics
22 citations, 0.13%
Advanced Optical Materials
21 citations, 0.12%
IEEE Photonics Journal
21 citations, 0.12%
Thin Solid Films
21 citations, 0.12%
Sensors
21 citations, 0.12%
European Physical Journal Plus
21 citations, 0.12%
Waves in Random and Complex Media
19 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Mathematical Physics
19 citations, 0.11%
Laser Physics Letters
18 citations, 0.11%
Nonlinear Dynamics
18 citations, 0.11%
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Citing publishers

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Elsevier
2528 citations, 14.88%
Optica Publishing Group
2120 citations, 12.48%
IOP Publishing
1992 citations, 11.73%
American Physical Society (APS)
1958 citations, 11.53%
Springer Nature
1784 citations, 10.5%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
1038 citations, 6.11%
AIP Publishing
622 citations, 3.66%
Taylor & Francis
571 citations, 3.36%
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
470 citations, 2.77%
Wiley
436 citations, 2.57%
MDPI
350 citations, 2.06%
Pleiades Publishing
260 citations, 1.53%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
130 citations, 0.77%
Oxford University Press
107 citations, 0.63%
EDP Sciences
107 citations, 0.63%
Cambridge University Press
103 citations, 0.61%
World Scientific
90 citations, 0.53%
Walter de Gruyter
71 citations, 0.42%
The Royal Society
64 citations, 0.38%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
57 citations, 0.34%
American Astronomical Society
57 citations, 0.34%
Optical Society of India
50 citations, 0.29%
Hindawi Limited
47 citations, 0.28%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
43 citations, 0.25%
Acta Physica Sinica, Chinese Physical Society and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
42 citations, 0.25%
Frontiers Media S.A.
41 citations, 0.24%
Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk Journal
36 citations, 0.21%
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
31 citations, 0.18%
SAGE
29 citations, 0.17%
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
29 citations, 0.17%
Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften
25 citations, 0.15%
American Vacuum Society
18 citations, 0.11%
Japan Society of Applied Physics
17 citations, 0.1%
Image Processing Systems Institute of RAS
15 citations, 0.09%
Trans Tech Publications
14 citations, 0.08%
Society of Exploration Geophysicists
14 citations, 0.08%
American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
14 citations, 0.08%
Science in China Press
12 citations, 0.07%
Opto-Electronic Advances
12 citations, 0.07%
Physical Society of Japan
12 citations, 0.07%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
11 citations, 0.06%
ASME International
11 citations, 0.06%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
10 citations, 0.06%
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
10 citations, 0.06%
Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
10 citations, 0.06%
The Laser Society of Japan
9 citations, 0.05%
IntechOpen
9 citations, 0.05%
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
8 citations, 0.05%
American Mathematical Society
8 citations, 0.05%
Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
8 citations, 0.05%
Annual Reviews
8 citations, 0.05%
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)
7 citations, 0.04%
Copernicus
7 citations, 0.04%
IGI Global
7 citations, 0.04%
Cellule MathDoc/Centre Mersenne
7 citations, 0.04%
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
6 citations, 0.04%
Slovenska Akademia Vied
6 citations, 0.04%
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine - Institute of Semiconductor Physics
6 citations, 0.04%
Steklov Mathematical Institute
6 citations, 0.04%
Scientific Research Publishing
6 citations, 0.04%
Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics
6 citations, 0.04%
Canadian Science Publishing
5 citations, 0.03%
Publishing House for Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (Publications)
5 citations, 0.03%
American Meteorological Society
4 citations, 0.02%
Electromagnetics Academy
4 citations, 0.02%
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
4 citations, 0.02%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
3 citations, 0.02%
Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
3 citations, 0.02%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
3 citations, 0.02%
American Geophysical Union
3 citations, 0.02%
Eizo Joho Media Gakkai
3 citations, 0.02%
Beilstein-Institut
3 citations, 0.02%
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Co. LTD Ukrinformnauka) (Publications)
3 citations, 0.02%
The Russian Academy of Sciences
3 citations, 0.02%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
3 citations, 0.02%
Publishing House Belorusskaya Nauka
3 citations, 0.02%
SAE International
3 citations, 0.02%
SLACK
3 citations, 0.02%
Institute of Electronics, Information and Communications Engineers (IEICE)
3 citations, 0.02%
Polish Academy of Sciences Chancellery
3 citations, 0.02%
Emerald
2 citations, 0.01%
American Physiological Society
2 citations, 0.01%
Morgan & Claypool Publishers
2 citations, 0.01%
University of Chicago Press
2 citations, 0.01%
Laser Institute of America
2 citations, 0.01%
Education and Upbringing Publishing
2 citations, 0.01%
The Korean Society of Precision Engineering
2 citations, 0.01%
Allerton Press
2 citations, 0.01%
Akademizdatcenter Nauka
2 citations, 0.01%
National Library of Serbia
2 citations, 0.01%
Stichting SciPost
2 citations, 0.01%
Federal State University of Education
2 citations, 0.01%
Research Square Platform LLC
2 citations, 0.01%
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
1 citation, 0.01%
Begell House
1 citation, 0.01%
1 citation, 0.01%
King Saud University
1 citation, 0.01%
1 citation, 0.01%
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
1 citation, 0.01%
Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers
1 citation, 0.01%
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University of Rochester
45 publications, 4.91%
Imperial College London
9 publications, 0.98%
Weizmann Institute of Science
8 publications, 0.87%
University of Arizona
7 publications, 0.76%
Palacký University Olomouc
7 publications, 0.76%
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
5 publications, 0.55%
Tel Aviv University
5 publications, 0.55%
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
5 publications, 0.55%
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
5 publications, 0.55%
University of Erlangen–Nuremberg
5 publications, 0.55%
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
4 publications, 0.44%
University of Sydney
4 publications, 0.44%
Pennsylvania State University
4 publications, 0.44%
Osaka University
4 publications, 0.44%
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
4 publications, 0.44%
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
4 publications, 0.44%
Institute of Photonic Sciences
4 publications, 0.44%
Polytechnic University of Catalonia
4 publications, 0.44%
Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
3 publications, 0.33%
Institute of Spectroscopy of the Russian Academy of Sciences
3 publications, 0.33%
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
3 publications, 0.33%
ETH Zurich
3 publications, 0.33%
Sapienza University of Rome
3 publications, 0.33%
Australian National University
3 publications, 0.33%
University of Eastern Finland
3 publications, 0.33%
Universite Libre de Bruxelles
3 publications, 0.33%
Los Alamos National Laboratory
3 publications, 0.33%
University of Central Florida
3 publications, 0.33%
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
3 publications, 0.33%
University of Michigan
3 publications, 0.33%
Purdue University
3 publications, 0.33%
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
3 publications, 0.33%
University of Toronto
3 publications, 0.33%
University of Valencia
3 publications, 0.33%
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
3 publications, 0.33%
University of Colorado Boulder
3 publications, 0.33%
City College of New York
3 publications, 0.33%
Texas A&M University
3 publications, 0.33%
National Research Council Canada
3 publications, 0.33%
Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica
3 publications, 0.33%
University of New Mexico
3 publications, 0.33%
Watson Research Center
3 publications, 0.33%
Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2 publications, 0.22%
Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2 publications, 0.22%
B. I. Stepanov Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
2 publications, 0.22%
Physical-technical Institute NGO “Physics-Sun” of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan
2 publications, 0.22%
Aix-Marseille University
2 publications, 0.22%
Soochow University (Suzhou)
2 publications, 0.22%
Yale University
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Glasgow
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Queensland
2 publications, 0.22%
Macquarie University
2 publications, 0.22%
Stanford University
2 publications, 0.22%
Princeton University
2 publications, 0.22%
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
2 publications, 0.22%
University of California, Berkeley
2 publications, 0.22%
Ohio State University
2 publications, 0.22%
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
2 publications, 0.22%
University of California, Irvine
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Chicago
2 publications, 0.22%
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Texas at Austin
2 publications, 0.22%
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Bristol
2 publications, 0.22%
University of St Andrews
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Duisburg-Essen
2 publications, 0.22%
Hokkaido University
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2 publications, 0.22%
Warsaw University of Technology
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Warsaw
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Miami
2 publications, 0.22%
National Physical Laboratory
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Bucharest
2 publications, 0.22%
Masaryk University
2 publications, 0.22%
Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
2 publications, 0.22%
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Western Brittany
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Vermont
2 publications, 0.22%
Lomonosov Moscow State University
1 publication, 0.11%
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
1 publication, 0.11%
National Research Nuclear University MEPhI
1 publication, 0.11%
Institute of Laser Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1 publication, 0.11%
Joint Institute for High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1 publication, 0.11%
Nuclear Safety Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1 publication, 0.11%
Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1 publication, 0.11%
Scientific and Technological Centre of Unique Instrumentation of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1 publication, 0.11%
Far Eastern Federal University
1 publication, 0.11%
Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod
1 publication, 0.11%
V.I. Il'ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1 publication, 0.11%
A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences
1 publication, 0.11%
Vavilov State Optical Institute
1 publication, 0.11%
Institute for Physical Research National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia
1 publication, 0.11%
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
1 publication, 0.11%
S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
1 publication, 0.11%
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
1 publication, 0.11%
Bar-Ilan University
1 publication, 0.11%
University of Genoa
1 publication, 0.11%
University of Twente
1 publication, 0.11%
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
1 publication, 0.11%
Tampere University
1 publication, 0.11%
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Weizmann Institute of Science
2 publications, 2.35%
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2 publications, 2.35%
University of Rochester
2 publications, 2.35%
National Research Council Canada
2 publications, 2.35%
University of Twente
1 publication, 1.18%
Fujian Normal University
1 publication, 1.18%
Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre
1 publication, 1.18%
University of California, Berkeley
1 publication, 1.18%
University of California, San Diego
1 publication, 1.18%
Tohoku University
1 publication, 1.18%
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
1 publication, 1.18%
University of Central Florida
1 publication, 1.18%
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
1 publication, 1.18%
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
1 publication, 1.18%
Kindai University
1 publication, 1.18%
University of Ottawa
1 publication, 1.18%
Tokyo Polytechnic University
1 publication, 1.18%
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
1 publication, 1.18%
Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York
1 publication, 1.18%
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USA, 141, 15.39%
USA
141 publications, 15.39%
Germany, 29, 3.17%
Germany
29 publications, 3.17%
Japan, 28, 3.06%
Japan
28 publications, 3.06%
United Kingdom, 25, 2.73%
United Kingdom
25 publications, 2.73%
France, 23, 2.51%
France
23 publications, 2.51%
Russia, 22, 2.4%
Russia
22 publications, 2.4%
Australia, 17, 1.86%
Australia
17 publications, 1.86%
Italy, 17, 1.86%
Italy
17 publications, 1.86%
Israel, 15, 1.64%
Israel
15 publications, 1.64%
Spain, 13, 1.42%
Spain
13 publications, 1.42%
Canada, 11, 1.2%
Canada
11 publications, 1.2%
Poland, 10, 1.09%
Poland
10 publications, 1.09%
Czech Republic, 10, 1.09%
Czech Republic
10 publications, 1.09%
China, 7, 0.76%
China
7 publications, 0.76%
Belgium, 7, 0.76%
Belgium
7 publications, 0.76%
Mexico, 7, 0.76%
Mexico
7 publications, 0.76%
Netherlands, 7, 0.76%
Netherlands
7 publications, 0.76%
Switzerland, 7, 0.76%
Switzerland
7 publications, 0.76%
USSR, 7, 0.76%
USSR
7 publications, 0.76%
Finland, 6, 0.66%
Finland
6 publications, 0.66%
Sweden, 5, 0.55%
Sweden
5 publications, 0.55%
Bulgaria, 3, 0.33%
Bulgaria
3 publications, 0.33%
Denmark, 3, 0.33%
Denmark
3 publications, 0.33%
India, 3, 0.33%
India
3 publications, 0.33%
Romania, 3, 0.33%
Romania
3 publications, 0.33%
Belarus, 2, 0.22%
Belarus
2 publications, 0.22%
Austria, 2, 0.22%
Austria
2 publications, 0.22%
Hungary, 2, 0.22%
Hungary
2 publications, 0.22%
Uzbekistan, 2, 0.22%
Uzbekistan
2 publications, 0.22%
Ukraine, 1, 0.11%
Ukraine
1 publication, 0.11%
Argentina, 1, 0.11%
Argentina
1 publication, 0.11%
Brazil, 1, 0.11%
Brazil
1 publication, 0.11%
Moldova, 1, 0.11%
Moldova
1 publication, 0.11%
Mongolia, 1, 0.11%
Mongolia
1 publication, 0.11%
New Zealand, 1, 0.11%
New Zealand
1 publication, 0.11%
South Africa, 1, 0.11%
South Africa
1 publication, 0.11%
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USA, 3, 3.53%
USA
3 publications, 3.53%
Belgium, 2, 2.35%
Belgium
2 publications, 2.35%
Israel, 2, 2.35%
Israel
2 publications, 2.35%
Canada, 2, 2.35%
Canada
2 publications, 2.35%
Netherlands, 2, 2.35%
Netherlands
2 publications, 2.35%
Japan, 2, 2.35%
Japan
2 publications, 2.35%
China, 1, 1.18%
China
1 publication, 1.18%
Spain, 1, 1.18%
Spain
1 publication, 1.18%
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