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Optics Express
Submission → publication 9 weeks
APC $2,440
DOAJ ✓
Earliest year 1818
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Publisher Optica Publishing Group · United States
Organiser Optica · United States
Country/Region United States
Subject Engineering
Open access ✓ (gold)
DOAJ ✓
License CC BY, Publisher's own license
Earliest year 1818
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Cost: $2,440;waiver policy available
Difficulty: average 9 weeks from submission to publication;68,273 articles per year
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Open access: ✓ · CC BY, Publisher's own license
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Articles/yr 68,273
h-index 349
2-yr mean citedness 3.90
Last publication year 2026
DOAJ article records 0
Open access ✓
“2-yr mean citedness” is the OpenAlex field summary_stats.2yr_mean_citedness (CC0): mean citations per paper over a two-year window. It is a raw bibliometric field, not a journal rating, and is not used for default ranking.
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Materials Science10,251
Engineering8,549
Physics and Astronomy7,988
Science: Physics: Optics. Light1
Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General): Applied optics. Photonics1
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