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Journal of Optics
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Journal of Optics

2040-8986

Published by: IOP Publishing

https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2040-8986

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Physics 135 53 52 14

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 280
Documents by Best Scientists*: 261
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 13
SCIMAGO H-index:
SCIMAGO SJR:
Impact Factor: 2.7

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Optics?

The primary areas of discussion in Journal of Optics are Optics, Laser, Optoelectronics, Wavelength and Polarization (waves). Diffraction, Refractive index, Beam (structure), Holography and Interferometry are some of the facets of Optics tackled in the journal.

  • Optics (97.84%)
  • Laser (9.08%)
  • Optoelectronics (9.08%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Surfaces with holes in them: new plasmonic metamaterials (762 citations)
  • Roadmap on silicon photonics (573 citations)
  • Surface plasmon–polariton length scales: a route to sub-wavelength optics (479 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Optics:

The journal papers aim to foster the development of research in Optics, Optoelectronics, Laser, Polarization (waves) and Plasmon. Topics like Diffraction, Refractive index, Metamaterial, Nonlinear optics and Optical fiber are tackled as part of the discussions on Optics in the most cited papers. Optical polarization is a focus of the presented Polarization (waves) works in the journal articles and they dives deep in Optical polarization.

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:

Journal of Optics explores disciplines such as Optics, Laser, Optoelectronics, Photonics and Refractive index. Optics research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Phase (waves), Quantum and Nonlinear system.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Highly dispersive optical solitons in birefringent fibers with four nonlinear forms using Kudryashov's approach (21 citations)
  • Cubic–quartic optical soliton perturbation with Lakshmanan–Porsezian–Daniel model by sine-Gordon equation approach (13 citations)
  • Quantum random number generation using a hexagonal boron nitride single photon emitter (11 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 Journal of Optics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Nikolay I. Zheludev (34 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Maxim A. Yavorsky (34 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition,
  • Rajpal S. Sirohi (33 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Sourangshu Mukhopadhyay (28 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition,
  • Miles J. Padgett (25 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 Optics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (206 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 5 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Calcutta (108 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Centre national de la recherche scientifique (80 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Zhejiang University (73 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Russian Academy of Sciences (72 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 3 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, 47.04% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 5.08% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 7.11% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 10.15% of all publications and 77.66% 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

  • Integral order photonic RF signal processors based on a soliton crystal micro-comb source

    Mengxi Tan;Xingyuan Xu;Jiayang Wu;Bill Corcoran

    (2021)
    212 Citations
  • Roadmap on spatiotemporal light fields

    (2022)
    96 Citations
  • Roadmap on multimode photonics

    Unknown

    (2022)
    94 Citations
  • Roadmap on structured waves

    (2023)
    83 Citations
  • Roadmap on multimode light shaping

    Marco Piccardo;Vincent Ginis;Andrew Forbes;Simon Mahler

    (2021)
    59 Citations
  • High capacity terahertz communication systems based on multiple orbital-angular-momentum beams

    (2022)
    29 Citations
  • Recent advances on strong light-matter coupling in atomically thin TMDC semiconductor materials

    (2022)
    29 Citations
  • Quantum random number generation using a hexagonal boron nitride single photon emitter

    Simon J. U. White;Friederike Klauck;Toan Trong Tran;Nora Schmitt

    (2021)
    29 Citations
  • Axiparabola: a new tool for high-intensity optics

    (2021)
    27 Citations
  • A spectrally selective gap surface-plasmon-based nanoantenna emitter compatible with multiple thermal infrared applications

    Ataollah Kalantari Osgouei;Amir Ghobadi;Bahram Khalichi;Ekmel Ozbay

    (2021)
    26 Citations

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