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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

2023 Speed
3 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
69 days submission to accept (Median)

2023 Usage 
250,126 downloads
775 Altmetric mentions 

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