The Optical Society (OSA) has published the first issue of its newest peer-reviewed, Gold Open-Access journal, OSA Continuum.
OSA Continuum joins OSA’s diverse portfolio of 17 peer-reviewed journals and provides a home for work that meets OSA’s high standards for technical accuracy, scientific rigour and presentation quality, without judgment of novelty or impact. Editor-in-Chief Takashige Omatsu of Chiba University in Japan leads the editorial board, comprised of outstanding researchers from around the world who are active in their field.
As part of its editorial mission, OSA Continuum offers the ability to publish negative results and reproducibility studies as well as a transparent peer review option - all firsts for OSA. Authors and reviewers who are interested in the transparent peer review option must all agree to publish their peer review correspondence along with the final article. The peer review correspondence includes editorial decision letters with reviewer comments and author responses. Reviewer names will remain anonymous. The first issue of OSA Continuum provides an example of the transparent peer review option.
The premier issue OSA Continuum covers topics such as digital holography, surface plasmon waves, penhole lens imaging, scattering, and metamaterials. The following papers represent some of the research highlights from this issue and can be accessed online in the OSA Publishing platform.
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