Journal of the Optical Society of America A

347.0k citations
12.6k papers · indexed · active since 1950

Journal of the Optical Society of America A

11.9k papers receiving 323.4k citations

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Journal of the Optical Society of America A
Comparison fields: 5 of 236
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 145.3k
  • Biomedical Engineering 99.0k
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering 78.2k
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 67.0k
  • Cognitive Neuroscience 52.0k
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About Journal of the Optical Society of America A

The 12.6k papers published in Journal of the Optical Society of America A in the last decades have received a total of 347.0k indexed citations . Papers published in Journal of the Optical Society of America A usually cover Acoustics and Ultrasonics (474 papers), Surfaces, Coatings and Films (1.5k papers) and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (6.4k papers) specifically the topics of Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (1.6k papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (1.5k papers) and Visual perception and processing mechanisms (1.4k papers). The most active scholars publishing in Journal of the Optical Society of America A are Berthold K. P. Horn, Lifeng Li, David Field, John Daugman, J. Durnin, B. T. Draine, Piotr J. Flatau, David R. Williams, L.A. Feldkamp and L. C. Davis.

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