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Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision
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Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

1084-7529

Published by: Optical Society of America

https://www.osapublishing.org/josaa/home.cfm

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Physics 208 16 26 8
Electronics and Electrical Engineering 409 30 41 6

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 182
Documents by Best Scientists*: 258
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 6
SCIMAGO H-index: 177
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.379
Impact Factor: 1.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of The Optical Society of America A-optics Image Science and Vision?

The journal tackles a plethora of topics, such as Optics, Diffraction, Scattering, Polarization (waves) and Fourier transform. The work on Optics addressed in it expands to the thematically related Image processing. The research on Image processing tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Image quality, Algorithm and Iterative reconstruction.

The Diffraction study featured in it draws connections with the study of Grating. Journal of The Optical Society of America A-optics Image Science and Vision concentrates on Scattering topics that focus on Mie scattering and Scattering theory. The journal focuses on Color vision but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Chromatic scale and Color space.

  • Optics (98.56%)
  • Diffraction (10.67%)
  • Scattering (10.37%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Practical cone-beam algorithm (4939 citations)
  • Closed-form solution of absolute orientation using unit quaternions (3606 citations)
  • Spatiotemporal energy models for the perception of motion (3052 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of The Optical Society of America A-optics Image Science and Vision:

Optics, Spatial frequency, Scattering, Image processing and Diffraction are the main subjects of interest in the journal publications. While work presented in the most cited articles provide substantial information on Optics, it also covers topics in Algorithm and Fourier transform. While the journal articles focused on Image processing, they were also able to explore topics like Image quality and Iterative reconstruction.

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

  • Optics
  • Quantum mechanics
  • Artificial intelligence

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The scientific interests tackled in the journal are Optics, Artificial intelligence, Image quality, Algorithm and Scattering. Journal of The Optical Society of America A-optics Image Science and Vision focused on Optics research but expanded to cover Phase (waves). Topics in Artificial intelligence explored in it were investigated in conjunction with research in Computer vision and Pattern recognition.

It focuses on Image quality research which is adjacent to topics in Point spread function. The Algorithm works featured in the journal incorporate elements from Fourier transform and Adaptive optics. Journal of The Optical Society of America A-optics Image Science and Vision facilitates discussions on Light beam that incorporate concepts from other fields like Vortex and Optical vortex.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • On the space-time statistics of motion pictures. (8 citations)
  • Single-molecule orientation localization microscopy II: a performance comparison (8 citations)
  • Broadband plasmon-induced transparency modulator in the terahertz band based on multilayer graphene metamaterials (5 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 The Optical Society of America A-optics Image Science and Vision (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Colin J. R. Sheppard (75 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Emil Wolf (50 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ari T. Friberg (46 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jari Turunen (44 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Bahram Javidi (41 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 The Optical Society of America A-optics Image Science and Vision (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Centre national de la recherche scientifique (257 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Arizona (204 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Rochester (139 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • The Institute of Optics (126 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (117 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as 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, 17.14% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 9.77% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 5.17% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 11.49% of all publications and 73.56% 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

  • Analysis of numerical diffraction calculation methods: from the perspective of phase space optics and the sampling theorem.

    Wenhui Zhang;Hao Zhang;Colin J R Sheppard;Guofan Jin

    (2020)
    53 Citations
  • Approaching quantum-limited imaging resolution without prior knowledge of the object location.

    Michael R. Grace;Zachary Dutton;Amit Ashok;Saikat Guha

    (2020)
    52 Citations
  • Pixel reassignment in image scanning microscopy: a re-evaluation.

    Colin J. R. Sheppard;Marco Castello;Giorgio Tortarolo;Takahiro Deguchi

    (2020)
    35 Citations
  • Scattering and three-dimensional imaging in surface topography measuring interference microscopy

    Rong Su;Jeremy Coupland;Colin Sheppard;Richard Leach

    (2021)
    34 Citations
  • Image scanning microscopy with multiphoton excitation or Bessel beam illumination.

    Colin J. R. Sheppard;Marco Castello;Giorgio Tortarolo;Eli Slenders

    (2020)
    15 Citations
  • Phase Retrieval Based on the Vectorial Model of Point Spread Function

    Nguyen Hieu Thao;Oleg Soloviev;Michel Verhaegen

    (2020)
    13 Citations
  • Learning-based compensation of spatially varying aberrations for holographic display [Invited].

    (2022)
    12 Citations
  • Variability in atlas registration of optical intrinsic signal imaging and its effect on functional connectivity analysis.

    Jonah A. Padawer-Curry;Jharna Jahnavi;Jake S. Breimann;Daniel J. Licht

    (2021)
    11 Citations
  • Eigenvectors of polarization coherency matrices

    Colin J R Sheppard;Artemi Bendandi;Aymeric Le Gratiet;Alberto Diaspro

    (2020)
    10 Citations
  • Scintillation and bit error rate in bidirectional laser communications between an aerial vehicle and a satellite using annular optical beams in strong turbulent atmosphere.

    Hamza Gerçekcioğlu;Yahya Baykal

    (2021)
    10 Citations

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