About the journal
Applied Optics is a journal published by Optica Publishing Group in United States. It is listed in MEDLINE and PUBMED according to the sources read. Facts are reproduced as recorded at their sources with their capture dates; PublishLens indicators are available after sign-in.
Basic facts
- Publisher
- Optica Publishing Group
- ISSN
- 1559-128X · 2155-3165
- Country
- United States
- Access
- Not open access / not declared
- Official website
- http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ao/
Index listings
- MEDLINE · 2002-01-01
- PUBMED · 1966-01-01
- Indexing
- MEDLINE · PUBMED
- APC
- —
- Declared review time (DOAJ)
- —
- Activity (OpenAlex)
- Active — latest works 2026
- PublishLens list status
- Shown after sign-in
- Counts for promotion at your university?
- Choose your university and rank below ↓
Methodology signals (dated facts from their sources)
Details of the evaluation under the published methodology are shown to signed-in users (free).
Create a free account to view the evaluationJournal profile
Descriptive metadata from public sources (DOAJ, OpenAlex, PubMed) as of the capture date shown — contains no assessment or judgment.
Works in OpenAlex
17065
Last recorded publication year
2026
h-index
101
i10-index
6048
From OpenAlex open data (CC0).
Editorial & policy4
- Norwegian register (HK-dir)— 2026
- Level 1 — approved scholarly channel
- Open references deposited at Crossref
- 99%
- ORCID iDs in current deposits
- 79%
- Enrolled in Crossref Similarity Check
- ✓
- Deposits licence metadata at Crossref
- ✓
Identity & continuity2
- Alternate titles
- AO
- Source type
- journal
Classification(no data)
No data available to the platform for this group
No platform data for: Classification — absence is not a judgment about the journal.
Community confirmations — what users saw in MJL or Scopus Sources; not platform verification and never part of any score.
The journal's record in other sources:Web of Science MJLDOAJ