Optics Letters

Optica Publishing Group
Optica Publishing Group
ISSN: 01469592, 15394794
SCImago
Q1
WOS
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Impact factor
3.1
SJR
1.040
CiteScore
6.6
Categories
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Areas
Physics and Astronomy
Years of issue
1977-2025
journal names
Optics Letters
OPT LETT
Publications
42 991
Citations
1 380 260
h-index
309
Publications
8 821
Citations
397 839
Top-3 citing journals
Optics Express
Optics Express (111328 citations)
Optics Letters
Optics Letters (100424 citations)
Optics Communications
Optics Communications (50728 citations)
Top-3 organizations
Stanford University
Stanford University (625 publications)
University of Southampton
University of Southampton (508 publications)
Harbin Institute of Technology
Harbin Institute of Technology (144 publications)
Tsinghua University
Tsinghua University (142 publications)
Top-3 countries
USA (12619 publications)
China (9609 publications)
Germany (3032 publications)
China (3486 publications)
USA (1069 publications)
Germany (384 publications)

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2950 citations, 0.21%
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2862 citations, 0.21%
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2721 citations, 0.2%
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2640 citations, 0.19%
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1946 citations, 0.14%
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1917 citations, 0.14%
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1904 citations, 0.14%
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1599 citations, 0.12%
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1565 citations, 0.11%
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1544 citations, 0.11%
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1517 citations, 0.11%
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1509 citations, 0.11%
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1480 citations, 0.11%
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1430 citations, 0.1%
Quantum Electronics
1419 citations, 0.1%
Advanced Materials
1417 citations, 0.1%
Materials
1395 citations, 0.1%
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Optica Publishing Group
353297 citations, 25.6%
Elsevier
192582 citations, 13.95%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
130371 citations, 9.45%
Springer Nature
110611 citations, 8.01%
IOP Publishing
80156 citations, 5.81%
American Physical Society (APS)
62349 citations, 4.52%
AIP Publishing
54108 citations, 3.92%
Wiley
48266 citations, 3.5%
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
37580 citations, 2.72%
MDPI
35961 citations, 2.61%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
22863 citations, 1.66%
Taylor & Francis
18465 citations, 1.34%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
11516 citations, 0.83%
Japan Society of Applied Physics
9494 citations, 0.69%
Pleiades Publishing
7478 citations, 0.54%
Walter de Gruyter
6087 citations, 0.44%
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6042 citations, 0.44%
World Scientific
5011 citations, 0.36%
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
4325 citations, 0.31%
Frontiers Media S.A.
3555 citations, 0.26%
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3399 citations, 0.25%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2769 citations, 0.2%
Hindawi Limited
2761 citations, 0.2%
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2327 citations, 0.17%
SAGE
2192 citations, 0.16%
EDP Sciences
2113 citations, 0.15%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
1864 citations, 0.14%
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1538 citations, 0.11%
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1477 citations, 0.11%
Trans Tech Publications
1463 citations, 0.11%
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1260 citations, 0.09%
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1196 citations, 0.09%
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1030 citations, 0.07%
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702 citations, 0.05%
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482 citations, 0.03%
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466 citations, 0.03%
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460 citations, 0.03%
Copernicus
452 citations, 0.03%
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
447 citations, 0.03%
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397 citations, 0.03%
Image Processing Systems Institute of RAS
364 citations, 0.03%
ASME International
356 citations, 0.03%
The Electrochemical Society
341 citations, 0.02%
Scientific Research Publishing
296 citations, 0.02%
Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
282 citations, 0.02%
Allerton Press
279 citations, 0.02%
Laser Institute of America
265 citations, 0.02%
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
250 citations, 0.02%
Chinese Society of Rare Earths
247 citations, 0.02%
Canadian Science Publishing
230 citations, 0.02%
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)
221 citations, 0.02%
The Russian Academy of Sciences
214 citations, 0.02%
Mary Ann Liebert
210 citations, 0.02%
Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEE Japan)
196 citations, 0.01%
Biophysical Society
189 citations, 0.01%
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188 citations, 0.01%
AME Publishing Company
185 citations, 0.01%
American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
175 citations, 0.01%
Research Square Platform LLC
175 citations, 0.01%
Ceramic Society of Japan
158 citations, 0.01%
IGI Global
157 citations, 0.01%
SLACK
154 citations, 0.01%
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146 citations, 0.01%
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145 citations, 0.01%
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143 citations, 0.01%
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142 citations, 0.01%
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136 citations, 0.01%
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134 citations, 0.01%
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129 citations, 0.01%
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129 citations, 0.01%
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123 citations, 0.01%
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SAE International
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