Optics Communications

Elsevier
Elsevier
ISSN: 00304018, 18730310
SCImago
Q2
WOS
Q2
Impact factor
2.2
SJR
0.538
CiteScore
5.1
Categories
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Areas
Chemistry
Engineering
Materials Science
Physics and Astronomy
Years of issue
1969-2025
journal names
Optics Communications
OPT COMMUN
Publications
38 073
Citations
562 866
h-index
170
Publications
4 808
Citations
137 924
Top-3 citing journals
Optics Communications
Optics Communications (49765 citations)
Applied Optics
Applied Optics (20969 citations)
Optics Express
Optics Express (20963 citations)
Top-3 countries
China (11547 publications)
USA (4488 publications)
France (2575 publications)
China (2537 publications)
India (182 publications)
USA (130 publications)

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Optics Communications
49765 citations, 8.84%
Applied Optics
20969 citations, 3.73%
Optics Express
20963 citations, 3.72%
Physical Review A
16604 citations, 2.95%
Optics Letters
14155 citations, 2.51%
Optik
11002 citations, 1.95%
Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics
10944 citations, 1.94%
Optics and Laser Technology
7815 citations, 1.39%
Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision
7625 citations, 1.35%
Journal of Modern Optics
6633 citations, 1.18%
Optical and Quantum Electronics
6557 citations, 1.16%
IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
5860 citations, 1.04%
Applied Physics Letters
5464 citations, 0.97%
Physical Review Letters
5192 citations, 0.92%
Journal of Applied Physics
5078 citations, 0.9%
Journal of Lightwave Technology
4572 citations, 0.81%
Optical Engineering
4226 citations, 0.75%
Journal of Optics (United Kingdom)
4221 citations, 0.75%
Optics and Lasers in Engineering
4178 citations, 0.74%
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
3964 citations, 0.7%
Physical Review B
3906 citations, 0.69%
Optical Materials
3605 citations, 0.64%
Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics
3475 citations, 0.62%
Laser Physics
3431 citations, 0.61%
Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
3119 citations, 0.55%
Physica Scripta
3078 citations, 0.55%
Scientific Reports
3032 citations, 0.54%
Journal of Chemical Physics
2927 citations, 0.52%
Photonics
2871 citations, 0.51%
IEEE Photonics Journal
2821 citations, 0.5%
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
2816 citations, 0.5%
Review of Scientific Instruments
2797 citations, 0.5%
Sensors
2793 citations, 0.5%
Chinese Physics B
2637 citations, 0.47%
Springer Series in Optical Sciences
2628 citations, 0.47%
Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
2569 citations, 0.46%
Chemical Physics Letters
2464 citations, 0.44%
Optical Fiber Technology
2410 citations, 0.43%
Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers & Short Notes
2335 citations, 0.41%
International Journal of Theoretical Physics
2209 citations, 0.39%
Laser Physics Letters
2195 citations, 0.39%
Physical Review E
2135 citations, 0.38%
Journal of Luminescence
2101 citations, 0.37%
Journal Physics D: Applied Physics
2098 citations, 0.37%
Journal of Optics A Pure and Applied Optics
2035 citations, 0.36%
IEEE Sensors Journal
1982 citations, 0.35%
Chinese Physics Letters
1943 citations, 0.35%
Plasmonics
1942 citations, 0.35%
Acta Physica Sinica
1900 citations, 0.34%
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
1872 citations, 0.33%
Progress in Optics
1839 citations, 0.33%
Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
1729 citations, 0.31%
Quantum Information Processing
1694 citations, 0.3%
Journal of Optics (India)
1690 citations, 0.3%
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
1641 citations, 0.29%
Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing
1616 citations, 0.29%
IEEE Access
1556 citations, 0.28%
Physics of Plasmas
1511 citations, 0.27%
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
1501 citations, 0.27%
Results in Physics
1499 citations, 0.27%
Measurement Science and Technology
1420 citations, 0.25%
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
1240 citations, 0.22%
Topics in Applied Physics
1227 citations, 0.22%
Microwave and Optical Technology Letters
1193 citations, 0.21%
Journal of Alloys and Compounds
1190 citations, 0.21%
Optical Review
1168 citations, 0.21%
Progress in Quantum Electronics
1161 citations, 0.21%
New Journal of Physics
1153 citations, 0.2%
Multimedia Tools and Applications
1150 citations, 0.2%
Optica Acta International Journal of Optics
1130 citations, 0.2%
Optical Materials Express
1118 citations, 0.2%
Optics and Spectroscopy (English translation of Optika i Spektroskopiya)
1098 citations, 0.2%
Infrared Physics and Technology
1082 citations, 0.19%
Laser and Photonics Reviews
1081 citations, 0.19%
Journal of Optical Communications
1062 citations, 0.19%
Physica B: Condensed Matter
1033 citations, 0.18%
Chemical Physics
1020 citations, 0.18%
Modern Physics Letters B
919 citations, 0.16%
Communications in Theoretical Physics
905 citations, 0.16%
Journal of Russian Laser Research
904 citations, 0.16%
Reports on Progress in Physics
867 citations, 0.15%
Physics Reports
854 citations, 0.15%
Journal of Optics B Quantum and Semiclassical Optics
851 citations, 0.15%
Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
834 citations, 0.15%
Journal of Applied Spectroscopy
823 citations, 0.15%
Applied Surface Science
816 citations, 0.14%
Journal of the Optical Society of America
804 citations, 0.14%
Thin Solid Films
794 citations, 0.14%
Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical
777 citations, 0.14%
Journal of Physics B Atomic and Molecular Physics
771 citations, 0.14%
Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics and Materials
763 citations, 0.14%
Nanomaterials
754 citations, 0.13%
Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics
752 citations, 0.13%
Micromachines
746 citations, 0.13%
Spectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
740 citations, 0.13%
Reviews of Modern Physics
724 citations, 0.13%
Nonlinear Dynamics
723 citations, 0.13%
Optoelectronics Letters
720 citations, 0.13%
Journal of Physical Chemistry C
719 citations, 0.13%
Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation
711 citations, 0.13%
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Elsevier
137648 citations, 24.45%
Optica Publishing Group
84170 citations, 14.95%
Springer Nature
58812 citations, 10.45%
IOP Publishing
39949 citations, 7.1%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
35922 citations, 6.38%
American Physical Society (APS)
30749 citations, 5.46%
AIP Publishing
21138 citations, 3.76%
Wiley
14618 citations, 2.6%
Taylor & Francis
14180 citations, 2.52%
MDPI
13875 citations, 2.47%
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
10445 citations, 1.86%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
6719 citations, 1.19%
Pleiades Publishing
4516 citations, 0.8%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
4067 citations, 0.72%
World Scientific
3882 citations, 0.69%
Japan Society of Applied Physics
2845 citations, 0.51%
Walter de Gruyter
2367 citations, 0.42%
Acta Physica Sinica, Chinese Physical Society and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2074 citations, 0.37%
Hindawi Limited
1750 citations, 0.31%
Cambridge University Press
1608 citations, 0.29%
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
1383 citations, 0.25%
Optical Society of India
1327 citations, 0.24%
EDP Sciences
1094 citations, 0.19%
Trans Tech Publications
1071 citations, 0.19%
Frontiers Media S.A.
983 citations, 0.17%
SAGE
962 citations, 0.17%
Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk Journal
565 citations, 0.1%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
503 citations, 0.09%
The Laser Society of Japan
497 citations, 0.09%
The Royal Society
441 citations, 0.08%
Electromagnetics Academy
426 citations, 0.08%
Physical Society of Japan
425 citations, 0.08%
Science in China Press
401 citations, 0.07%
Oxford University Press
382 citations, 0.07%
Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics
310 citations, 0.06%
Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
307 citations, 0.05%
American Vacuum Society
289 citations, 0.05%
Scientific Research Publishing
254 citations, 0.05%
Canadian Science Publishing
250 citations, 0.04%
249 citations, 0.04%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
207 citations, 0.04%
IntechOpen
203 citations, 0.04%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
193 citations, 0.03%
Image Processing Systems Institute of RAS
186 citations, 0.03%
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
184 citations, 0.03%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
175 citations, 0.03%
American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
169 citations, 0.03%
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
167 citations, 0.03%
Annual Reviews
167 citations, 0.03%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
161 citations, 0.03%
Emerald
154 citations, 0.03%
IGI Global
148 citations, 0.03%
145 citations, 0.03%
Societa Italiana di Fisica
144 citations, 0.03%
Laser Institute of America
141 citations, 0.03%
The Electrochemical Society
138 citations, 0.02%
Chinese Society of Rare Earths
136 citations, 0.02%
Research Square Platform LLC
133 citations, 0.02%
ASME International
132 citations, 0.02%
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)
129 citations, 0.02%
Alexandria University
127 citations, 0.02%
Science Alert
118 citations, 0.02%
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
105 citations, 0.02%
Institute of Electronics, Information and Communications Engineers (IEICE)
103 citations, 0.02%
King Saud University
102 citations, 0.02%
The Chemical Society of Japan
100 citations, 0.02%
IOS Press
96 citations, 0.02%
Hans Publishers
95 citations, 0.02%
American Astronomical Society
89 citations, 0.02%
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
87 citations, 0.02%
Allerton Press
87 citations, 0.02%