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Aims and scope

Aims and scope

eLight aims to attract the finest manuscripts, broadly covering all sub-fields of optics, photonics and electromagnetics. In particular, we focus on those emerging topics and cross-disciplinary researches related to optics.

Annual Journal Metrics

Citation Impact 2023
Journal Impact Factor: 27.2
5-year Journal Impact Factor: 27.2
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 7.550
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 8.650

Speed 2023
Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 3
Submission to acceptance (median days): 69

Usage 2023
Downloads: 250,126
Altmetric mentions: 775

This journal is indexed by

• ESCI
• SCOPUS
• EI Compendex 
• Google Scholar
• CNKI
• Baidu
• Dimensions
• CNPIEC
• CLOCKSS
• Wanfang
• TD Net Discovery Service
• ProQuest-ExLibris
• Portico
• OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
• Naver
• EBSCO Discovery Service