Top 10 Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics Journals In The World 2026

1. Advances in Optics and Photonics

Advances in Optics and Photonics (AOP) publishes comprehensive review articles and multimedia tutorials appropriate for students, researchers, faculty, business professionals and engineers. The all-electronic Journal's authoritative content covers advances in optics and photonics from fundamental science to engineering applications. AOP is led by Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Guifang Li, who, assisted by the Journal's distinguished advisory and associate editors, solicits articles and manages peer review. more...

2. Light Science and Applications

Light: Science & Applications (LSA) seeks to promote research from all aspects of optics and photonics, including basic, applied and engineering research and applications. This journal will primarily publish new research results in cutting-edge and emerging topics in optics and photonics, as well as covering traditional topics in optical engineering. The journal will publish original articles and reviews that are of high quality, high interest and far-reaching consequence. Light: Science & Applications is an open access, online-only journal. Please go to Aims and scope page more...

3. Advanced Photonics

Advanced Photonics is a highly selective, open-access, international journal that publishes innovative research in all areas of optics and photonics, including fundamental and applied research. The journal publishes top-quality original papers, letters, and review articles, reflecting significant advances and breakthroughs in theoretical and experimental research and novel applications with considerable potential. The journal seeks high-quality, high-impact articles across the entire spectrum of optics, photonics, and related fields with specific emphasis on the following acceptance criteria: New concepts in terms of fundamental research more...

4. Opto Electronic Advances

Opto-Electronic Advances (OEA) is a high-impact, open access, peer reviewed SCI journal with an Impact Factor of 14.1, and places itself in Q1 quartiles of Optics category. Since its launch in March 2018, OEA has been indexed in SCI, EI, Scopus, CA and ICI databases. The Editorial Board of OEA has 36 members from 17 countries (average h-index 46). It is dedicated to provide a platform for researchers, academicians, professionals, practitioners, and students to impart and share knowledge in the form of high quality empirical and theoretical research more...

5. Optica

Optica Publishing Group publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed articles in its portfolio of journals, which serve the full breadth of the optics and photonics community. Optica is an open-access, online-only journal dedicated to the rapid dissemination of high-impact peer-reviewed research across the entire spectrum of optics and photonics. Published monthly by Optica Publishing Group, Optica provides a forum for pioneering research to be swiftly accessed by the international community, whether that research is theoretical or experimental, fundamental or applied. A new open-access journal that focuses on the rapid more...

6. Nano Research

Nano Research is a peer-reviewed, international and interdisciplinary research journal that focuses on all aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Submissions are solicited in all topical areas, ranging from basic aspects of the science of nanoscale materials to practical applications of such materials. Nano Research publishes articles that focus on, but are not limited to, the following areas: -Synthesis, characterization and manipulation of nanomaterials- Nanoscale physics, electrical transport, quantum physics- Scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy- Nanofluidics- Nanosensors- Nanoelectronics and molecular electronics- more...

7. Chinese Optics Letters

Chinese Optics Letters (COL) is an international journal aimed at the rapid dissemination of latest, important discoveries and inventions in all branches of optical science and technology. It is considered to be one of the most important journals in optics in China. It is collected by Optica Publishing Group and also indexed by Science Citation Index (SCI), Engineering Index (EI), etc. COL is distinguished by its short review period (~30 days) and publication period (~100 days). With its debut in January 2003, COL more...

8. Chinese Journal of Lasers

Chinese Journal of Lasers (ISSN 0258-7025), which is regarded as a flagship journal in China, reports on current and influential research in the field of lasers. Founded in 1974, the journal is administrated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), is sponsored by the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, CAS, and the Chinese Optical Society, and is published by the Chinese Laser Press. The featured columns of Chinese Journal of Lasers include laser physics, laser manufacturing, materials and thin more...

9. Acta Optica Sinica

Acta Optica Sinica (ISSN: 0253-2239), founded in 1981, is the most famous academic optical publication in China issued at home and abroad, and it covers the latest research in optical science. The main scope of this journal includes atmospheric and ocean optics, detectors, fiber optics and optical communications, Fourier optics and optical signal processing, holography, imaging systems, measurement and metrology, lasers and laser optics, machine vision, materials, nonlinear optics, optical design and fabrication, optical devices, physical optics, quantum optics, remote sensing more...

10. JP Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

The JP Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer publishes peer-reviewed articles in heat and mass transfer which enriches basic ideas in this field and provides applicable tools to its users. Articles both theoretical and experimental in nature covering different aspects in the area of heat and mass transfer such as heat transfer in phase change phenomena, machinery and welding operations, porous media and turbulence are considered. Priority is given to those which employ or generate fundamental techniques useful to promote applications in different disciplines of engineering, electronics, communication systems, environmental sciences and climatology. Also, we encourage work more...