The Optical Society (OSA) has announced that its journals have again generated the most citations and largest number of articles of any publisher in the optics category of the 2011 Journal Citation Reports (Thomson Reuters JCR, 2011). In addition, OSA’s latest journal, Biomedical Optics Express, which launched in August 2010, debuted on the optics list with an Impact Factor of 2.333, the highest of any new optics journal this year.
OSA’s journal portfolio accounts for 41 percent of total citations received in 2011 and 35 percent of all articles published in the JCR optics category—more than any other publisher on the list. Of the top 25 journals ranked by Impact Factor, eight are part of OSA’s journal portfolio—three of which are in the top 10. These include: Optics Express, Optics Letters, and Journal of Lightwave Technology, co-published with IEEE.
OSA’s pioneering open access journal, Optics Express, is again ranked as the 12th largest publication indexed by JCR’s Science Citation Index. Also of note is the staying power of Applied Optics and the Journal of the Optical Society of America A – both have once again posted a cited half-life of more than 10 years for their published articles.
