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Elsevier in Optics

11 journals across the optics spectrum

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Open access options

Did you know we offer you a choice in how you wish to disseminate your research - either by publishing it as a subscription article or as an open access article?

Benefits of publishing at Elsevier

  • Widest choice: 11 journals across the entire Optics Spectrum

  • Fast Publication: Accepted articles published online within 3-5 days

  • Maximum visibility with Sciencedirect: Putting your paper in the hands of more than 15 million people

  • Unique links for sharing with Share Links: 50 days' unlimited free access to your full article

  • Mendeley Stats: An overview for keeping track how your publications are being downloaded, shared and cited

  • High quality peer review

  • Reproducibility of your Research: make related data, methods or protocols citable by co-submitting them as micro-article to the open access peer reviewed journals Data-in-Brief(opens in new tab/window) and MethodsX(opens in new tab/window)

Optic journals

Select the most suitable journal for your paper.

Journal of Luminescence

The purpose of the Journal of Luminescence is to provide a means of communication between scientists in different disciplines who share a common interest in the electronic excited states of molecular, ionic and covalent systems, whether crystalline, amorphous, or liquid.

Journal of Luminescence

CiteScore: 7 Impact Factor: 3.6

Optical Materials

The purpose of Optical Materials is to provide a means of communication and technology transfer between researchers who are interested in materials for potential device applications. The journal publishes original papers and review articles on the design, synthesis, characterisation and applications of optical materials. Read more(opens in new tab/window)

Optical Materials has an open access mirror journal Optical Materials: X(opens in new tab/window), sharing the same aims and scope, editorial team, submission system and rigorous peer review.

Optical Materials

CiteScore: 5.6 Impact Factor: 3.9

Optical Materials: X

A gold open access international journal on the physics and chemistry of optical materials and their applications, including devices.

The purpose of Optical Materials: X is to provide a means of communication and technology transfer between researchers who are interested in materials for potential device applications. The journal publishes original papers and review articles on the design, synthesis, characterisation and applications of optical materials

Optical Materials: X

Citescore: 4.3

Optics Communications

Optics Communications invites original and timely contributions containing new results in various fields of optics and photonics. The journal considers theoretical and experimental research in areas ranging from the fundamental properties of light to technological applications.

Optics Communications

CiteScore: 5 Impact Factor: 2.4

Photonics and Nanostructures

This journal establishes a dedicated channel for physicists, material scientists, chemists, engineers and computer scientists who are interested in photonics and nanostructures, and especially in research related to photonic crystals, photonic band gaps and metamaterials.

Photonics and Nanostructures

CiteScore: 4.7 Impact Factor: 2.7

Optics and Lasers in Engineering

Optics and Lasers in Engineering aims to provide an international forum for the interchange of information on the development and application of optical techniques and laser technology in engineering.

Optics and Lasers in Engineering

CiteScore: 9.3 Impact Factor: 4.6

Optics & Laser Technology

Optics & Laser Technology aims to provide a vehicle for the publication of a broad range of high quality research and review papers in those fields of scientific and engineering research appertaining to the development and application of the technology of optics and lasers.

Optics & Laser Technology

CiteScore: 8.3 Impact Factor: 5

Optical Fiber Technology

Optical Fiber Technology is a cutting-edge journal designed to fill a need in this rapidly evolving field for speedy publication of regular length papers. Both theoretical and experimental papers on fiber materials, devices, and system performance evaluation and measurements are eligible, with emphasis on practical applications.

Optical Fiber Technology

CiteScore: 4.9 Impact Factor: 2.7

Progress in Quantum Electronics

Progress in Quantum Electronics is an international review journal devoted to the dissemination of new, specialized topics at the forefront of quantum electronics and its applications. The journal publishes papers dealing with theoretical or experimental aspects of contemporary research such as advances in the physics, technology and engineering of subjects of relevance to quantum electronics.

Progress in Quantum Electronics

CiteScore: 15.6 Impact Factor: 11.7

Optik

Optik publishes articles on all subjects related to light and electron optics and offers a survey on the state of research and technical development within the field of optics.

Optik

CiteScore: 5.7 Impact Factor: 3.1

Results in Optics

Results in Optics is an open access journal offering authors the opportunity to publish in all fundamental, interdisciplinary and applied areas of Optics and Photonics.

Results in Optics

CiteScore: 1.8