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IEEE Photonics Journal

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Electronics and Electrical Engineering 122 288 529 26
Physics 206 19 26 8

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 532
Documents by Best Scientists*: 779
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 10
SCIMAGO H-index: 100
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.563
Impact Factor: 2.4

Overview

Top Research Topics at IEEE Photonics Journal?

The journal focuses largely on the fields of Optics, Optoelectronics, Laser, Photonics and Electronic engineering. Optical fiber, Fiber laser, Polarization (waves), Polarization-maintaining optical fiber and Fiber Bragg grating are all areas of Optics tackled in IEEE Photonics Journal. Polarization (waves) works presented in the journal have a specific focus on Optical polarization.

The journal focuses on Polarization-maintaining optical fiber but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Dispersion-shifted fiber, Graded-index fiber and Photonic-crystal fiber. Topics like Wavelength, Waveguide (optics), Plasmon, Silicon and Light-emitting diode are tackled as part of the discussions on Optoelectronics. The studies tackled, which mainly focus on Light-emitting diode, apply to Diode as well.

Research on Laser presented in it focuses, in particular, on Semiconductor laser theory and Distributed feedback laser. In it, Visible light communication, Transmission (telecommunications), Bit error rate and Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Electronic engineering research.

  • Optics (50.65%)
  • Optoelectronics (38.50%)
  • Laser (12.49%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • 1-Gb/s Transmission Over a Phosphorescent White LED by Using Rate-Adaptive Discrete Multitone Modulation (375 citations)
  • A Bias-Free Quantum Random Number Generation Using Photon Arrival Time Selectively (284 citations)
  • Label-Free Biosensing With a Slot-Waveguide-Based Ring Resonator in Silicon on Insulator (283 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at IEEE Photonics Journal:

The journal articles generally zeroe in on subjects such as Optics, Optoelectronics, Electronic engineering, Photonics and Optical fiber. The published papers focus on Electronic engineering but sometimes tackle the closely related topic of Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing which is concerned with Multiplexing. Issues in Optical fiber were discussed in the journal articles, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Fiber and Interferometry.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Optics
  • Quantum mechanics
  • Laser

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The main points discussed in IEEE Photonics Journal deals with Optoelectronics, Optics, Laser, Optical fiber and Electronic engineering. The study on Optoelectronics presented is investigated in conjunction with research in Modulation. The research on Optics tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Phase (waves), Phase modulation and Signal.

Discussions in IEEE Photonics Journal are anchored in the subject of Signal and the similar topic of Radio frequency. The journal explores issues in Laser which can be linked to other research areas like Fiber and Pulse (physics). Research in Transmission (telecommunications) and the interrelating topic of Bit error rate were among the subjects of interest in the Electronic engineering studies discussed in the journal.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Impact of Correlation and Pointing Error on Secure Outage Performance Over Arbitrary Correlated Nakagami- $m$ and $\mathcal {M}$ -Turbulent Fading Mixed RF-FSO Channel (9 citations)
  • Liquid Leakage Sensor With a V-Shaped Defect Coupling Structure Based on Polymer Optical Fibers (8 citations)
  • Rapid Image Reconstruction of Structured Illumination Microscopy Directly in the Spatial Domain (6 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in IEEE Photonics Journal (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Deming Liu (62 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 5 less than at the previous edition,
  • Songnian Fu (44 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Chi-Wai Chow (41 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Tiegen Liu (39 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Jianquan Yao (38 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in IEEE Photonics Journal (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (276 papers) published 55 papers at the last edition, 16 more than at the previous edition,
  • Huazhong University of Science and Technology (222 papers) published 13 papers at the last edition, 10 less than at the previous edition,
  • Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (162 papers) published 19 papers at the last edition, 6 more than at the previous edition,
  • Tianjin University (139 papers) published 11 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University (126 papers) published 15 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 6.51% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 31.46% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 13.71% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 15.96% of all publications and 38.88% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Angle-of-Arrival (AOA) Visible Light Positioning (VLP) System Using Solar Cells With Third-Order Regression and Ridge Regression Algorithms

    Chong-You Hong;Yu-Chun Wu;Yang Liu;Chi-Wai Chow

    (2020)
    78 Citations
  • Performance Analysis of Dual-Hop RF-UWOC Systems

    Hongjiang Lei;Yiyao Zhang;Ki-Hong Park;Imran Shafique Ansari

    (2020)
    68 Citations
  • Real-Time Optical-Wireless Video Surveillance System for High Visual-Fidelity Underwater Monitoring

    (2022)
    61 Citations
  • Polarization-Insensitive, Broadband, and Tunable Terahertz Absorber Using Slotted-Square Graphene Meta-Rings

    (2022)
    58 Citations
  • Gb/s Underwater Wireless Optical Communications Using Series-Connected GaN Micro-LED Arrays

    Georgios N. Arvanitakis;Erdan Gu;Harald Haas;Martin D. Dawson

    (2020)
    58 Citations
  • Toward Long-Distance Underwater Wireless Optical Communication Based on A High-Sensitivity Single Photon Avalanche Diode

    Honglan Chen;Xinwei Chen;Jie Lu;Xiaoyan Liu

    (2020)
    45 Citations
  • Demonstration of a 2.34 Gbit/s Real-Time Single Silicon-Substrate Blue LED-Based Underwater VLC System

    Ming Chen;Peng Zou;Long Zhang;Nan Chi

    (2020)
    43 Citations
  • Analysis of Size-Dependent Quantum Efficiency in AlGaInP Micro–Light-Emitting Diodes With Consideration for Current Leakage

    (2022)
    42 Citations
  • Impulse Response Modeling of Underwater Optical Scattering Channels for Wireless Communication

    Ruben Boluda-Ruiz;Pedro Rico-Pinazo;Beatriz Castillo-Vazquez;Antonio Garcia-Zambrana

    (2020)
    41 Citations
  • Should Analogue Pre-Equalisers be Avoided in VLC Systems?

    Xicong Li;Zabih Ghassemlooy;Stanislav Zvanovec;Rafael Perez-Jimenez

    (2020)
    35 Citations

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