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Aims and scope

Aims and scope

PhotoniX aims to present brave endeavors in promoting X-disciplinary research, latest progress of engineering applications and breakthroughs in scientific discoveries, all enabled by photonics. Original scientific letters, articles, reviews, and technology progress reports are equally welcome.

The journal focuses on the enabling power of photonics, with topics including but not limited to:

  • Light manipulation and applications, beam propagation and steering techniques
  • Optical communication, storage, information processing and computing
  • Photonics for big data and artificial intelligence
  • Astrophotonics and aero-space optics
  • Optical sensing technologies
  • Terahertz and X-ray optics
  • Green technologies
  • Small-scale optics
  • Nonlinear optics
  • Optoelectronics
  • Meta optics
  • Bionics

Affiliated with

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Chinese Society for Optical Engineering

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Tsinghua University

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University of Shanghai for Science and Technology

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Westlake University


Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    16.5 - 2-year Impact Factor
    16.5 - 5-year Impact Factor
    5.247 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    4.445 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Speed
    17 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    142 days submission to accept (Median)

    2023 Usage 
    246,459 downloads
    48 Altmetric mentions 

This journal is indexed by

  • SCOPUS
  • Science Citation Index Expanded
  • EI Compendex 
  • DOAJ
  • CNKI
  • Dimensions
  • EBSCO Discovery Service
  • Google Scholar
  • Naver
  • OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  • ProQuest-ExLibris Summon
  • ProQuest-ExLibris Primo
  • TD Net Discovery Service
  • Portico
  • INSPEC
  • Current Contents/Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences
  • Current Contents/Engineering, Computing and Technology
  • CNPIEC
  • CLOCKSS