Optics Letters: impact and ranking
Optics Letters has a 2-year mean citedness of 3.52 in OpenAlex, which ranks #3,223 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 348. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.52 #3,223 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 348 #326 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.7M #164 of 18,122
- Works
- 46k 36.7 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Optics Letters?
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 Letters: 3.52, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Optics Letters #3,223 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 Letters?
OpenAlex gives Optics Letters an h-index of 348: 348 of its papers have each been cited at least 348 times. That ranks #326 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Optics Letters publish?
OpenAlex records 46,223 works in Optics Letters from 1878 to 2026, cited 1,698,616 times in all, 36.7 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #164 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Optics Letters
- Publisher
- Optica Publishing Group
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0146-9592
- In OpenAlex
- 1878 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Optics Letters as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- www.opticsinfobase.org/ol
- OpenAlex record
- S134390580
Journals ranked near Optics Letters
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Optics Letters on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3,176 | Analytical Biochemistry | 3.55 | 406 |
| 3,209 | Brain Research | 3.53 | 399 |
| 3,214 | Journal of Cell Science | 3.53 | 385 |
| 3,253 | The FASEB Journal | 3.49 | 401 |
| 3,279 | Experimental Cell Research | 3.48 | 285 |
| 3,330 | American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology | 3.43 | 285 |
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.