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International Journal of Optics

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ27724383 ↗
Source-derived summary

International Journal of Optics is a peer-reviewed and open access scientific journal published by Wiley. Covering fundamental and applied research in optics and photonics, it was established in 2009 as a merger of two journals, Advances in Nonlinear Optics and Research Letters in Optics. The journal was published by Hindawi until the latter's discontinuation of the brand in 2023. Its current editor-in-chief is Giulio Cerullo (Politecnico di Milano).

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Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology

Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences

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EBSCO databases

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According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024 impact factor of 1.7.

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This entry incorporates text from “International Journal of Optics” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.