The Optical Society (OSA) has announced that its journal portfolio again leads the Optics category in the latest edition of the Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) (Thomson Reuters, 2015). Not only does OSA remain the foremost publisher in the field with the largest number of articles published (35%), but its high quality content also received the most citations (45%) of the 86 titles included in this year's Optics category.
OSA's comprehensive journal portfolio, accessible via the OSA Publishing Digital Library, received over 200,000 citations in 2014 and included 5 of the top 10 journals when ranked by total citations (Optics Express, Optics Letters, Applied Optics, Journal of Lightwave Technology and the Journal of the Optical Society of America A). Its title, Advances in Optics and Photonics, earned an Impact Factor of 10.111, a 5-Year IF of 18.565 and is ranked 3rd overall by Impact Factor in the Optics Category.
As a further reflection of the high quality science published by OSA, 12 out of 14 OSA journals saw an increase in their Impact Factor in this year's edition, and 8 OSA-owned and co-published journals are among the top 25 titles ranked by Impact Factor.
