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Optics Express
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Optics Express

1094-4087

Published by: Optical Society of America

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

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Physics 28 261 899 43

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 2848
Documents by Best Scientists*: 6292
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 72
SCIMAGO H-index: 324
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.93
Impact Factor: 3.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Optics Express?

Optics Express mainly tackles studies in Optics, Optoelectronics, Laser, Refractive index and Wavelength. Optics Express investigates Optics research which frequently intersects with Phase (waves). Optoelectronics studies presented in it focus on topics such as Photonic crystal, Photonics, Resonator, Grating and Terahertz radiation.

It features studies on Terahertz radiation, including topics such as Terahertz spectroscopy and technology. Research on Laser presented in the journal focuses, in particular, on Femtosecond, Semiconductor laser theory, Laser power scaling, Tunable laser and Lasing threshold. Photonic-crystal fiber is a focus of the presented Optical fiber works and it dives deep in Photonic-crystal fiber.

Concepts in Graded-index fiber, as well as related topics in Polarization-maintaining optical fiber, are covered in the Photonic-crystal fiber research presented in the journal. The Plasmon study tackling the subject of Surface plasmon is the focus of Optics Express. Surface plasmon polariton is the primary subject of Surface plasmon works presented in Optics Express.

  • Optics (97.10%)
  • Optoelectronics (23.86%)
  • Laser (16.88%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Block-iterative frequency-domain methods for Maxwell’s equations in a planewave basis (2694 citations)
  • Performance of fourier domain vs. time domain optical coherence tomography. (1747 citations)
  • Free-space information transfer using light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (1741 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Optics Express:

The journal articles mainly deal with areas of study such as Optics, Optoelectronics, Laser, Refractive index and Optical fiber. Topics like Photonic-crystal fiber, Wavelength, Fiber laser, Photonic crystal and Surface plasmon are tackled as part of the discussions on Optics in the journal articles. Aside from discussions in Photonic-crystal fiber, the most cited publications also deal with the subject of Polarization-maintaining optical fiber which intersects with Dispersion-shifted fiber disciplines.

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:

Optics Express investigates studies in Optics, Laser, Optoelectronics, Wavelength and Polarization (waves). The Optics works featured in the journal incorporate elements from Phase (waves) and Artificial intelligence. The journal tackles issues in Artificial intelligence, particularly in the topics of Image quality and Image processing.

The journal concentrates on Laser topics that focus on Fiber laser and Femtosecond.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Hybrid metamaterial absorber for ultra-low and dual-broadband absorption. (31 citations)
  • Quartz-enhanced photoacoustic-photothermal spectroscopy for trace gas sensing (25 citations)
  • Existence, symmetry breaking bifurcation and stability of two-dimensional optical solitons supported by fractional diffraction (17 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 Optics Express (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Andreas Tünnermann (176 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Benjamin J. Eggleton (135 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Shin-Tson Wu (128 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 5 less than at the previous edition,
  • David J. Richardson (127 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • Byoungho Lee (120 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 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 Optics Express (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (2119 papers) published 210 papers at the last edition, 26 more than at the previous edition,
  • Huazhong University of Science and Technology (942 papers) published 79 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • Zhejiang University (660 papers) published 51 papers at the last edition, 11 less than at the previous edition,
  • Tsinghua University (616 papers) published 55 papers at the last edition, 5 more than at the previous edition,
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (593 papers) published 13 papers at the last edition, 13 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, 7.95% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 19.89% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 8.02% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 16.52% of all publications and 55.57% 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

  • Physics-informed neural networks for inverse problems in nano-optics and metamaterials.

    Yuyao Chen;Lu Lu;George Em Karniadakis;Luca Dal Negro

    (2020)
    1030 Citations
  • Single-pixel imaging 12 years on: a review

    Graham M Gibson;Steven D Johnson;Miles J Padgett

    (2020)
    378 Citations
  • Fourier ptychography: current applications and future promises

    (2020)
    164 Citations
  • Super-resolution single-photon imaging at 8.2 kilometers

    Zheng-Ping Li;Xin Huang;Peng-Yu Jiang;Yu Hong

    (2020)
    100 Citations
  • In-situ dual-channel surface plasmon resonance fiber sensor for temperature-compensated detection of glucose concentration

    Shengnan Wu;Qin Tan;Erik Forsberg;Siqi Hu

    (2020)
    86 Citations
  • Deep neural network for multi-depth hologram generation and its training strategy

    Juhyun Lee;Jinsoo Jeong;Jaebum Cho;Dongheon Yoo

    (2020)
    78 Citations
  • Experimental realization of arbitrary activation functions for optical neural networks

    Monireh Moayedi Pour Fard;Ian A. D. Williamson;Matthew Edwards;Ke Liu

    (2020)
    78 Citations
  • Photonic topology optimization with semiconductor-foundry design-rule constraints.

    Alec M. Hammond;Ardavan Oskooi;Steven G. Johnson;Stephen E. Ralph

    (2021)
    77 Citations
  • Multi-depth hologram generation using stochastic gradient descent algorithm with complex loss function

    Chun Chen;Byounghyo Lee;Nan-Nan Li;Minseok Chae

    (2021)
    77 Citations
  • Plasmonically induced transparency in in-plane isotropic and anisotropic 2D materials.

    Shengxuan Xia;Xiang Zhai;Lingling Wang;Shuangchun Wen

    (2020)
    76 Citations

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