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Journal of Optical Communications and Networking
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Journal of Optical Communications and Networking

1943-0620

Published by: Optical Society of America

https://www.osapublishing.org/jocn/journal/jocn/about.cfm

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Electronics and Electrical Engineering 125 121 282 26
Computer Science 245 57 181 23
Engineering and Technology 909 11 33 9

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 175
Documents by Best Scientists*: 385
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 81
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.858
Impact Factor: 4.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Optical Communications and Networking?

Journal of Optical Communications and Networking explores disciplines such as Computer network, Electronic engineering, Passive optical network, Network topology and Distributed computing. The work tackled in Journal of Optical Communications and Networking goes beyond the discipline of Computer network as it also encompasses Wavelength-division multiplexing. Journal of Optical Communications and Networking addresses concerns in Wavelength-division multiplexing which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Multiplexing, Blocking (statistics) and Optical amplifier.

Electronic engineering research featured in Journal of Optical Communications and Networking incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Optical performance monitoring, Optical cross-connect, Bit error rate and Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing. The journal emphasizes research on Optical performance monitoring, which includes concerns such as Optical Transport Network. Topics in Optical Transport Network explored in the journal were investigated in conjunction with research in Optical networking and Optical burst switching.

Journal of Optical Communications and Networking is focused mainly on Passive optical network, particularly Optical line termination. The Network topology works featured in the journal incorporate elements from Core network and Quality of service. The journal explores issues in Distributed computing which can be linked to other research areas like Scalability and Scheduling (computing).

  • Computer network (27.67%)
  • Electronic engineering (15.72%)
  • Passive optical network (11.95%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Survey of Photonic Switching Architectures and Technologies In Support Of Spatially and Spectrally Flexible Optical Networking {[}Invited] (129 citations)
  • Design of Low-Margin Optical Networks (113 citations)
  • Emerging Optical Access Network Technologies for 5G Wireless [Invited] (85 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Optical Communications and Networking:

The most cited publications explore disciplines such as Computer network, Electronic engineering, Telecommunications, Wavelength-division multiplexing and Passive optical network. The published articles in Network topology fall within the purview of Computer network but it also intertwines with topics in C-RAN. MIMO, MIMO-OFDM and Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing are some topics wherein Electronic engineering research discussed in the journal articles has an impact.

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 Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Dimitra Simeonidou (5 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Piero Castoldi (5 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Tornatore Massimo (4 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Simeonidou Dimitra (4 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Filippo Cugini (4 papers) absent at the last 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 Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Bell Labs (4 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of California, Davis (3 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (3 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ericsson (3 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies (3 papers) absent at the last 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 2022 edition, 0.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 50.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 0.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 50.00% of all publications and 0.00% 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

  • GNPy: an open source application for physical layer aware open optical networks

    Alessio Ferrari;Mark Filer;Karthikeyan Balasubramanian;Yawei Yin

    (2020)
    204 Citations
  • Introduction to indoor networking concepts and challenges in LiFi

    Harald Haas;Liang Yin;Cheng Chen;Stefan Videv

    (2020)
    150 Citations
  • Efficient preamble design and digital signal processing in upstream burst-mode detection of 100G TDM coherent-PON

    Junwen Zhang;Zhensheng Jia;Mu Xu;Haipeng Zhang

    (2021)
    94 Citations
  • Power control strategies and network performance assessment for C+L+S multiband optical transport

    Bruno Correia;Rasoul Sadeghi;Emanuele Virgillito;Antonio Napoli

    (2021)
    94 Citations
  • Outage probability analysis of a vertical underwater wireless optical link subject to oceanic turbulence and pointing errors

    Unknown

    (2022)
    85 Citations
  • 4G to 6G: disruptions and drivers for optical access [Invited]

    Unknown

    (2021)
    81 Citations
  • GNPy model of the physical layer for open and disaggregated optical networking [Invited]

    (2022)
    74 Citations
  • Advanced optical access technologies for next-generation (5G) mobile networks [Invited]

    Jim Shihuan Zou;Silviu Adrian Sasu;Mirko Lawin;Annika Dochhan

    (2020)
    64 Citations
  • Machine learning regression for QoT estimation of unestablished lightpaths

    Memedhe Ibrahimi;Hatef Abdollahi;Cristina Rottondi;Alessandro Giusti

    (2021)
    46 Citations

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