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OSA Continuumopen access

Country

United States

Universities and research institutions in United States
Media Ranking in United States

Subject Area and Category

Publisher

Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA)

H-Index

27

Publication type

Journals

ISSN

25787519

Coverage

2018-2023

Information

Homepage

How to publish in this journal

osac@osa.org

Scope

The Optical Society (OSA) publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed articles in its portfolio of journals, which serve the full breadth of the optics and photonics community. OSA Continuum is an inclusive, rapid-publication, Open-Access journal, welcoming contributions from the broad optics and photonics community. OSA Continuum publishes research articles meeting OSA's high standards for technical accuracy, scientific rigor, and presentation quality without judgment of impact or significance. OSA Continuum will publish original research articles, negative results, reproducibility studies, comments and replies. A unique feature of OSA Continuum is the opportunity for authors and reviewers to agree to publish the peer review correspondence (decision letters, reviewer comments, and author response to reviews) associated with an article. Join the conversation about this journal
Quartiles

The set of journals have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles. Q1 (green) comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.

CategoryYearQuartile
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2020Q2
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2021Q2
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2022Q2
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics2023Q3
Electrical and Electronic Engineering2020Q2
Electrical and Electronic Engineering2021Q2
Electrical and Electronic Engineering2022Q2
Electrical and Electronic Engineering2023Q2
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials2020Q2
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials2021Q2
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials2022Q2
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials2023Q3
SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.

YearSJR
20200.592
20210.530
20220.522
20230.435
Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

YearDocuments
2018132
2019327
2020311
2021290
2022232
2023212
Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per documentYearValue
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20180.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20192.061
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20202.037
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20211.940
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20221.835
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20231.503
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20180.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20192.061
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20202.037
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20211.940
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20221.857
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20231.528
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20180.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20192.061
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20202.037
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20211.934
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20221.917
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20231.477
Total Cites 
Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

CitesYearValue
Self Cites20180
Self Cites20199
Self Cites202021
Self Cites202143
Self Cites202255
Self Cites202328
Total Cites20180
Total Cites2019272
Total Cites2020935
Total Cites20211494
Total Cites20221723
Total Cites20231273
External Cites per Doc 
Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

CitesYearValue
External Cites per document20180
External Cites per document20191.992
External Cites per document20201.991
External Cites per document20211.884
External Cites per document20221.797
External Cites per document20231.495
Cites per document20180.000
Cites per document20192.061
Cites per document20202.037
Cites per document20211.940
Cites per document20221.857
Cites per document20231.528
% International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.

YearInternational Collaboration
201820.45
201920.49
202025.72
202120.34
202216.81
202313.21
Citable documents 
Non-citable documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.

DocumentsYearValue
Non-citable documents20180
Non-citable documents20191
Non-citable documents20201
Non-citable documents20211
Non-citable documents20220
Non-citable documents20230
Citable documents20180
Citable documents2019131
Citable documents2020458
Citable documents2021769
Citable documents2022928
Citable documents2023833
Cited documents 
Uncited documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

DocumentsYearValue
Uncited documents20180
Uncited documents201934
Uncited documents2020140
Uncited documents2021242
Uncited documents2022318
Uncited documents2023316
Cited documents20180
Cited documents201998
Cited documents2020319
Cited documents2021528
Cited documents2022610
Cited documents2023517
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