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Open Access Optics Journals
A list of Open Access Optics journals for you to publish your manuscript in
Optics is branch of physics concerning light
All articles published in Open Access journals have undergone peer review and upon acceptance are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.
This list of Optics Open Access journals will hopefully make it easier for you to decide where to publish your Optics manuscript.
Our list includes all the high-impact factor Optics journals that may be relevant to your field of study. In any case, we've also included other journals that may also offer more affordable publishing fees.In many cases, you only see lists of Optics journals, nonetheless, in our case we have made the list with open access Optics journals in mind.Use our different columns — number of papers, number of citations, and relevance — to find the best Optics venue for your manuscript.
The DOAJ columns refers to the The Directory of Open Access Journals, a list of open access journals, maintained by Infrastructure Services for Open Access.
There are certain criteria a journal must meet to be indexed by DOAJ, and thus inclusion in the DOAJ index is seen by scholars as a mark of quality.
All the open access Optics journals in this list are indexed in OA.mg.
If you spot any mistakes in this table of Optics OA journals, don’t hesitate to send us an email.
| Name | ISSN | DOAJ | Publisher | No. of Papers | Citations | Relevance▼ | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Research Letters in Optics | 1687-8175 | Hindawi Limited | 10 | 57 | 100 | ||
| International journal of biology education | 2147-4990 | International Journal of Biology Education | 1 | 1 | 100 | ||
| Timely interventions | 2160-5777 | University Library System, University of Pittsburgh | 1 | 4 | 100 | ||
| Current Trends in Polymer Science | 0972-446X | Research Trends, Ltd. | 1 | 0 | 100 | ||
| Journal of optics and photonics | 2057-1569 | Herbert Publications | 1 | 18 | 100 | ||
| Terahertz science & technology | 1941-7411 | EDP Sciences | 15 | 5 | 100 | ||
| Journal of organic and biomolecular simulations | 2325-2170 | Science Publications | 1 | 1 | 100 | ||
| ScienceOpen astronomy & astrophysics | 2197-3504 | ScienceOpen | 1 | 0 | 100 | ||
| Advances in computing | 2163-2944 | Scientific and Academic Publishing | 1 | 14 | 100 | ||
| Journal of neural transplantation | 1352-237X | Hindawi Limited | 1 | 0 | 100 | ||
| The Open optics journal | 1874-3285 | Bentham Science | 1 | 0 | 100 | ||
| ISRN optics | 2090-7826 | Hindawi (International Scholarly Research Network) | 2 | 0 | 100 | ||
| The Open nanomedicine and nanotechnology journal | 2666-1500 | Bentham Science | 1 | 5 | 100 | ||
| Materials science and metallurgy engineering | 2373-3489 | 1 | 2 | 100 | |||
| Optics Express | 1094-4087 | ☑ | The Optical Society | 54964 | 1369054 | 98.3 | Website |
| X-ray Optics and Instrumentation | 1687-7632 | Hindawi Limited | 27 | 386 | 96.3 | ||
| Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics | 1225-6285 | Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics | 1243 | 619 | 96.2 | ||
| Optical Materials Express | 2159-3930 | ☑ | The Optical Society | 3901 | 49008 | 95.7 | Website |
| Frontiers in photonics | 2673-6853 | Frontiers Media SA | 39 | 16 | 94.9 | Website | |
| Journal of The Optical Society of Korea | 1226-4776 | Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics | 1112 | 6089 | 94.2 | ||
| Advances in Optics | 2314-7741 | Hindawi Limited | 17 | 72 | 94.1 | ||
| High Power Laser Science and Engineering | 2052-3289 | ☑ | Cambridge University Press | 444 | 3990 | 94.1 | Website |
| Journal of Photonics | 2314-6451 | Hindawi Limited | 15 | 81 | 93.3 | ||
| APL photonics | 2378-0967 | ☑ | American Institute of Physics | 778 | 9712 | 92.9 | Website |
| Photonics | 2304-6732 | ☑ | MDPI AG | 3141 | 6412 | 92.7 | Website |
| Journal of Laser Micro Nanoengineering | 1880-0688 | Japan Laser Processing Society | 827 | 5039 | 92.5 | ||
| Optica | 2334-2536 | ☑ | The Optical Society | 1891 | 68307 | 92.2 | Website |
| OSA continuum | 2578-7519 | ☑ | The Optical Society | 1088 | 3346 | 91.9 | Website |
| Current optics and photonics | 2508-7266 | Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics | 24 | 77 | 91.7 | ||
| Photonic Sensors | 2190-7439 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 533 | 4897 | 91.7 | Website |
| Ultrafast science | 2765-8791 | ☑ | AAAS00 | 22 | 39 | 90.9 | Website |
| Journal of the European Optical Society: Rapid Publications | 1990-2573 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 735 | 6504 | 90.6 | Website |
| Journal of contact lens research & science | 2561-3103 | Dougmar Publishing Group, Inc. | 21 | 56 | 90.5 | ||
| Photonics Letters of Poland | 2080-2242 | Photonics Society of Poland | 1033 | 1549 | 90.4 | ||
| PhotoniX | 2662-1991 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 62 | 946 | 90.3 | Website |
| Journal of advanced optics & photonics | 2578-2274 | Computers, Materials and Continua (Tech Science Press) | 20 | 6 | 90 | ||
| Advances in Optical Technologies | 1687-6393 | Hindawi Limited | 193 | 2186 | 89.6 | ||
| Biomedical Optics Express | 2156-7085 | ☑ | The Optical Society | 5268 | 89988 | 89.2 | Website |
| IEEE Photonics Journal | 1943-0647 | ☑ | 5451 | 52182 | 88.8 | ||
| Reviews in fluorescence | 1573-8086 | 112 | 435 | 87.5 | |||
| International journal of optics and applications | 2168-5061 | 24 | 129 | 87.5 | |||
| Light-Science & Applications | 2047-7538 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 1363 | 59382 | 87 | Website |
| Advanced photonics | 2577-5421 | ☑ | SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering | 192 | 2180 | 86.5 | Website |
| Journal of Synchrotron Radiation | 0909-0495 | ☑ | International Union of Crystallography | 4671 | 90624 | 86.5 | Website |
| Journal of Biomedical Optics | 1083-3668 | ☑ | 7182 | 197994 | 86.2 | Website | |
| Optics and Photonics Journal | 2160-8881 | Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 550 | 1898 | 86 | ||
| Nanophotonics | 2192-8614 | ☑ | Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1836 | 28222 | 86 | Website |
| International Journal of Optics | 1687-9384 | ☑ | Hindawi Limited | 379 | 1653 | 85.8 | Website |
| Göttingen series in x-ray physics | 2191-9860 | 27 | 83 | 85.2 | |||
| Wine studies | 2039-4438 | PAGEPress Publications | 20 | 37 | 85 | ||
| Optics | 2673-3269 | ☑ | MDPI AG | 70 | 68 | 84.3 | Website |
| Optics | 2328-7810 | 63 | 95 | 84.1 | |||
| JCRS Online Case Reports | 2214-1677 | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer) - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | 211 | 155 | 83.9 | ||
| EPJ | 2272-2394 | ☑ | EDP Sciences | 130 | 588 | 83.8 | Website |
| JPhys photonics | 2515-7647 | ☑ | IOP Publishing | 260 | 1033 | 82.7 | Website |
| Physical Review Special Topics-accelerators and Beams | 1098-4402 | ☑ | American Physical Society | 2446 | 39194 | 82.6 | Website |
| Results in optics | 2666-9501 | ☑ | Elsevier | 256 | 224 | 82.4 | Website |
| International journal of wine research | 1179-1403 | Dove Medical Press | 79 | 1071 | 82.3 | ||
| Physical review accelerators and beams | 2469-9888 | ☑ | American Physical Society | 1558 | 9001 | 82.2 | Website |
| Opto-Electronic Advances | 2096-4579 | ☑ | Opto-Electronic Advances | 173 | 1745 | 80.9 | Website |
| Photoacoustics | 2213-5979 | ☑ | Elsevier | 411 | 6081 | 80 | Website |
| American journal of optics and photonics | 2330-8494 | 88 | 363 | 79.5 | |||
| Clinical spectroscopy | 2666-0547 | ☑ | Elsevier | 19 | 97 | 78.9 | Website |
| Advanced photonics research | 2699-9293 | ☑ | Wiley | 507 | 827 | 78.9 | Website |
| Journal of scientific & industrial metrology | 2472-1948 | Scitechnol Biosoft Pvt. Ltd (OMICS) | 14 | 15 | 78.6 | ||
| Wine Economics and Policy | 2212-9774 | ☑ | Firenze University Press | 187 | 2696 | 77.5 | Website |
| Journal of EuCornea | 2452-4034 | Elsevier | 40 | 46 | 77.5 | Website | |
| Optical Materials: X | 2590-1478 | ☑ | Elsevier | 139 | 191 | 77 | Website |
| Iet Optoelectronics | 1751-8768 | ☑ | Institution of Electrical Engineers | 739 | 4779 | 77 | Website |
| Nanospectroscopy | 2300-3537 | De Gruyter Open Sp. z o.o. | 13 | 66 | 76.9 | ||
| Structural Dynamics | 2329-7778 | ☑ | American Institute of Physics | 395 | 4943 | 76.7 | Website |
| Quantum beam science | 2412-382X | ☑ | MDPI AG | 166 | 651 | 76.5 | Website |
| Optical Data Processing and Storage | 2084-8862 | De Gruyter Open Sp. z o.o. | 29 | 230 | 75.9 | ||
| Laser Chemistry | 0278-6273 | Hindawi Limited | 556 | 4373 | 75.9 | ||
| Advanced electromagnetics | 2119-0275 | ☑ | Advanced Electromagnetics | 78 | 42 | 75.6 | Website |
| Iet Microwaves Antennas & Propagation | 1751-8725 | ☑ | Institution of Electrical Engineers | 3843 | 36086 | 75.5 | Website |
| International journal of retina and vitreous | 2056-9920 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 394 | 3152 | 75.4 | Website |
| Laser and Particle Beams | 0263-0346 | Hindawi Limited | 3106 | 28761 | 75.3 | ||
| Advances in Optoelectronics | 1687-563X | Hindawi Limited | 201 | 2482 | 75.1 | ||
| Journal of materials physics and chemistry | 2333-4444 | 12 | 306 | 75 | |||
| Dataset Papers in Physics | 2314-5285 | Hindawi Limited | 4 | 8 | 75 | ||
| Eye and vision | 2326-0254 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 297 | 4116 | 74.7 | Website |
| International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology | 1687-5826 | Hindawi Limited | 124 | 729 | 73.4 | ||
| Journal of Light & Visual Environment | 0387-8805 | Illuminating Engineering Society of Japan | 784 | 2561 | 73.3 | ||
| Progress in Electromagnetics Research Letters | 1937-6480 | The Electromagnetics Academy (EMW Publishing) | 2091 | 12341 | 73.1 | ||
| Radiostroenie | 2587-926X | JSC Radio Engineering Corporation - Vega | 11 | 4 | 72.7 | ||
| International journal of particle therapy | 2331-5180 | ☑ | International Journal of Particle Therapy | 306 | 1418 | 72.2 | Website |
| Journal of Ophthalmology | 2090-004X | ☑ | Hindawi Limited | 2707 | 23413 | 72 | Website |
| International Journal of Optomechatronics | 1559-9612 | ☑ | Taylor & Francis | 275 | 2064 | 70.9 | Website |
| International journal of sustainable lighting (Online) | 2586-1247 | ☑ | International Journal of Sustainable Lighting | 54 | 247 | 70.4 | Website |
| Journal of biomedical photonics & engineering | 2411-2844 | ☑ | Samara National Research University | 209 | 641 | 70.3 | Website |
| Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves | 1001-9014 | China Science Publishing & Media Ltd. | 2539 | 2315 | 69.9 | ||
| International journal of optics and photonics | 1735-8590 | Armenian Green Publishing Co. | 105 | 90 | 69.5 | ||
| IJRETINA (International Journal of Retina) | 2614-8536 | ☑ | Indonesian Vitreoretinal Society | 78 | 9 | 69.2 | Website |
| EJNMMI Physics | 2197-7364 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 571 | 4187 | 69.2 | Website |
| Instruments | 2410-390X | ☑ | MDPI AG | 203 | 635 | 69 | Website |
| BMC Ophthalmology | 1471-2415 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 3104 | 27244 | 68.5 | Website |
| Case Reports in Ophthalmology | 1663-2699 | ☑ | S. Karger AG | 1127 | 4205 | 68.4 | Website |
| The Review of Laser Engineering | 0387-0200 | 6728 | 3549 | 68.2 | |||
| Optofluidics, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics | 2300-7435 | De Gruyter Open Sp. z o.o. | 28 | 67 | 67.9 |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Where can I publish my Optics paper?
You can publish your Optics paper in the Open Access journals in this list
What is Open Access (OA)?
Open access is an international movement that aims to provide free and open online access to academic information, such as publications and data
What does “relevance” mean in the table?
It refers to the level of association between a journal being listed and the concept it is listed under, from 0-100. For example, the Journal Of Physics Through Computation has a relevance of “100” when listed under “Open Access Computer Science Journals” because it has relevance to the field of Computer Science.
How do you count total number of citations?
The citations show how often articles from this journal have been referenced in other works. OpenAlex is where we get this data from. Although the accuracy is debatable, it can nevertheless help you get a sense of how prestigious a journal is in general.
Where can I find other lists like this one?
If you are looking for an author or journal article, you can type it in the name, title, or DOI in the search box above to see more results. If you want to see a similar list to this one, take a look on OA.mg
How can I publish my paper on OA.mg?
At the moment, we do not offer publishing services, that's why we made these lists, so you can find the right journal to publish your paper in. Our goal with OA.mg is to help disseminate research.
What is an APC?
The Article Processing Charge (APC) is the fee that publishers of some open access journals charge in order to publish articles.
What are the different Open Access types?
Different open access types are commonly described using a colour system. The most commonly recognised names are “green”, “gold”, and “hybrid” open access; however, “bronze”, “black”, and “diamond” also exist.