Optics Express: impact and ranking
Optics Express has a 2-year mean citedness of 3.55 in OpenAlex, which ranks #3,172 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 343. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.55 #3,172 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 343 #339 of 18,122
- Citations
- 2.2M #98 of 18,122
- Works
- 68k 32.4 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Optics Express?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for Optics Express: 3.55, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Optics Express #3,172 of 18,122 journals, in the top 18%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Optics Express?
OpenAlex gives Optics Express an h-index of 343: 343 of its papers have each been cited at least 343 times. That ranks #339 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Optics Express publish?
OpenAlex records 68,036 works in Optics Express from 1818 to 2026, cited 2,204,744 times in all, 32.4 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #98 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Optics Express
- Publisher
- Optica Publishing Group
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 1094-4087
- In OpenAlex
- 1818 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists Optics Express as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Its listed article processing charge is US$2,270.
- Website
- www.osapublishing.org/oe
- OpenAlex record
- S178776955
Journals ranked near Optics Express
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Optics Express on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3,093 | The Journal of Physiology | 3.60 | 482 |
| 3,094 | Solid State Communications | 3.60 | 231 |
| 3,112 | Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics | 3.59 | 327 |
| 3,176 | Analytical Biochemistry | 3.55 | 406 |
| 3,209 | Brain Research | 3.53 | 399 |
| 3,214 | Journal of Cell Science | 3.53 | 385 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.