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Journal of Optics (India)

academic journal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ136523905 ↗
Source-derived summary

Journal of Optics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published quarterly by Springer on behalf of the Optical Society of India. It covers fundamental and applied research in optics, photonics and vision science. It was established in 1972 and its editor-in-chief is Lakshminarayan Hazra (University of Calcutta).

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According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024 impact factor of 2.4.

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“Journal of Optics (India)” enters the record as academic journal. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Journal, Optics and India can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1972, 2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Journal, Optics and India.
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This entry incorporates text from “Journal of Optics (India)” 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.