The Optical Society (OSA) has announced that its journal Optics Letters is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Launched in 1977 as a means to quickly disseminate the latest in optics research and provide the optics and photonics community with a true Letters-style publication, Optics Letters has, over the course of its long history, published influential papers in nonlinear optics, ultra-fast spectroscopy, fibre optics, optical communication, and biomedical optics among other areas.
OSA has also launched a special website to highlight the milestone. The site contains editorials from past Editors-in-Chief, a list of the top 100 most-cited Optics Letters articles, a special selection of Editors' Picks articles and other historic material showcasing the rich history of the journal.
Over the past 40 years, the journal has published nearly 30,000 papers with feedback from over 120,000 reviews. The innovative research published in the journal was cited more than 55,000 times in 2015 alone and has helped Optics Letters maintain an Impact Factor above 3.0 for the past 15 years. Keeping true to its original promise of providing researchers a place to publish peer-reviewed results quickly, the median time from submission to publication is less than 70 days.
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