JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS Impact factor 2025

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The latest impact factor of JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS and all the other Web of Science journals was released on 20th June 2025 by Clarivate. Through this web page, researchers can check the impact factor, total citation, journal quartile, and journal aim & scope.

JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS: Aim & Scope

JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS is a Web of Science indexed journal tha publishes research in the area: Optics.
The ISSN of this journal is 1520-8540.

Impact factor of JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS

Journal Title	JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS
Impact Factor	1.8
SJR
ISSN	1520-8540
Quartile

Impact Factor from year 2018-2024

Year	Impact Factor
2018	2.048
2019	2.284
2020	2.18
2021	2.106
2022
2023	1.9
2025	1.8

The Journal Impact Factor is defined as citations to the journal in the JCR year to items published in the previous two years, divided by the total number of scholarly items, also known as citable items, (these comprise articles and reviews) published in the journal in the previous two years.

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