The journal (under its former title Optica Acta) was founded in 1953 - some years before the advent of the laser - as an international journal of optics. Since then optical research has changed greatly; fresh areas of inquiry have been explored, different techniques have been employed and the range of application has greatly increased. The journal has continued to reflect these advances as part of its steadily widening scope.
Journal of Modern Optics aims to publish original and timely contributions to optical knowledge from educational institutions, government establishments and industrial R&D groups world-wide. The whole field of classical and quantum optics is covered. Papers may deal with the applications of fundamentals of modern optics, considering both experimental and theoretical aspects of contemporary research. In addition to regular papers, there are topical and tutorial reviews, and special issues on highlighted areas.
All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees.
General topics covered include: • Optical and photonic materials (inc. metamaterials) • Plasmonics and nanophotonics • Quantum optics (inc. quantum information) • Optical instrumentation and technology (inc. detectors, metrology, sensors, lasers) • Coherence, propagation, polarization and manipulation (classical optics) • Scattering and holography (diffractive optics) • Optical fibres and optical communications (inc. integrated optics, amplifiers) • Vision science and applications • Medical and biomedical optics • Nonlinear and ultrafast optics (inc. harmonic generation, multiphoton spectroscopy) • Imaging and Image processing
Topical and Tutorial Reviews In order to best provide optical scientists with the highest quality information on current research topics, Journal of Modern Optics publishes two styles of review articles: topical reviews and tutorial reviews. Topical reviews are aimed primarily at the specialist already working on the topic covered or in a closely related area. Tutorial reviews emphasize the basics and are aimed at a structured introduction to a topic assuming little previous background knowledge. If you are interested in writing a review article for the journal, please send a one page synopsis explaining its topicality and likely content to Professor Khare: [email protected] It will be considered by the Editorial Board and then may lead to an invitation to submit a full review.
Special Issues
Please note that Journal of Modern Optics has a general policy of NOT publishing full conference proceedings. The Journal only publishes Special Issues - on occasion, these may often overlap heavily with work presented at a specific conference on the topic of the Special Issue but we do not publish conventional conference proceedings. Contributions to Journal of Modern Optics Special Issues must report original research and will be subjected to review by referees at the discretion of the Editorial Office.
Readership:
Optics research workers in universities, industry and research institutes.
Journal metrics
Usage
131K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
1.2 (2023) Impact Factor
1.2 (2023) 5 year IF
2.9 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
0.545 (2023) SNIP
0.308 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
25 days avg. from submission to first
decision
153 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
10 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
11% acceptance rate
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Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
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journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
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Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
Editor: Kedar Khare - Optics and Photonics Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
Associate Editors: Thomas Brown - Professor of Optics, The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, New York, USA Mayukh Lahiri - Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA Auro Perego - Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Birmingham, UK Fan Wang - Biophotonics Research Group, School of Physics, Beihang University, China
Editorial Board: S. Boscolo -Aston University, Birmingham, UK V. Buzek -Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia M. L. Calvo -Complutense University of Madrid, Spain K. W. Cheah -Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong J. T. Costello - Dublin City University, Ireland S. Enoch -Institut Fresnel, UMR CNRS 6133, France A. Harvey -University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK M. Ivanov -Imperial College, London, UK D. F. V. James- University of Toronto, Canada V. Lakshminarayanan -University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada G. Leuchs -Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany J. Marangos - Imperial College London, UK M. Padgett FRSE -University of Glasgow, UK E. Paspalakis -University of Patras,Patras,Greece M. G. Raymer -University of Oregon, Eugene, USA C. Rockstuhl -Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany I. Walmsley- University of Oxford, UK G. R.Welch- Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA A. G. White- University of Queensland, Australia S.-Y. Zhu - Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing, China
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