The Optical Society Bibliometric Report

Introduction

This report provides a comprehensive analytics report of the publisher The Optical Society including basic bibliometric information, citation data, impact metrics, top journals, publication keywords, etc., over recent years. The Crossref database (up to the end of 2021) processed by ScienceGate has been used for this report as the source of data.

The Optical Society has published 321629 documents so far, receiving a total of 4212868 citations. These numbers are equal to 0.26% and 0.38% of the total documents and citations in the scientific community, respectively. The Optical Society has a score of 13.10 as a number of citations per document based on all recorded data. There are different types of documents published by The Optical Society. In this regard, Journal Article, Proceedings Article, Dataset, Other, and Book a with the total document number of 207271, 114355, 1, 1, and 1 have the largest share, respectively. These numbers are equal to 64.44%, 35.55%, 0.00%, 0.00%, and 0.00% of the total documents published in The Optical Society so far, respectively. The Optical Society has been an active publisher from 1917-2021.

Basic Bibliometric Information

This section provides the bibliometrics data of The Optical Society over the last 11 years, including the number of published documents, total citations, citations per document, and scaled number of citations per document by year. Share of The Optical Society documents and citations among all published scientific documents are also presented here. The Optical Society has the highest annual number of publications in 2016, with 16463 published documents. Most annual citations are also received in 2010, with 188132 citations. The highest citations per document’s scores, scaled by the number of years ahead, are associated with 2020, with scores of 0.45.

Document Types

There are different types of documents published by publishers. In this section, the yearly publication data of The Optical Society are presented by document type, including Journal Articles, Proceeding Articles, Datasets, and Books.

The number of published documents by The Optical Society are 207271, 114355, 1, and 1 for Journal Articles, Proceeding Articles, Datasets, and Books, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.23%, 1.62%, 0.00%, and 0.00% of the whole published Journal Articles, Proceeding Articles, Datasets, and Books in the database so far, respectively.

The number of received citations by Journal Articles, Proceeding Articles, Datasets, and Books of The Optical Society are 4147119, 65746, 1, and 0, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.39%, 0.37%, 0.00%, and 0.00% of the citations received by whole Journal Articles, Proceeding Articles, Datasets, and Books of the database so far, respectively.

The h-index value for published Journal Articles, Proceeding Articles, Datasets, and Books by The Optical Society are 416, 44, 1, and 0, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 3201, 615, 98, and 793, respectively.

The g-index value for published Journal Articles, Proceeding Articles, Datasets, and Books by The Optical Society are 38, 9, 1, and 0, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 129, 50, 20, and 60, respectively.

The score of citations per document for published Journal Articles, Proceeding Articles, Datasets, and Books by The Optical Society are 20.008, 0.575, 1.000, and 0.000, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 11.521, 2.540, 0.070, and 8.593, respectively.

The highest number of annually published Journal Articles, Proceeding Articles, Datasets, and Books by The Optical Society are 9859, 8211, 1, and 1, respectively. The corresponding year of maximum publication for Journal Articles, Proceeding Articles, Datasets, and Books are 2020, 2016, 2017, and 2015, respectively.

The highest number of annual received citations by Journal Articles, Proceeding Articles, Datasets, and Books published in The Optical Society are 183511, 7117, 1, and 0, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum received citations for Journal Articles, Proceeding Articles, Datasets, and Books are 2011, 2011, 2017, and 2020, respectively.

The highest values of citations per number of document for Journal Articles, Proceeding Articles, Datasets, and Books published in The Optical Society are 27.19, 1.12, 1.00, and 0.00, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum values of citations per document for Journal Articles, Proceeding Articles, Datasets, and Books are 2010, 2011, 2017, and 2015, respectively.

Impact Metrics

Various metrics and indicators are used to evaluate the impact and quality of publishers and journals. Here, h-index, g-index, and i-index are selected as impact evaluation metrics of the publisher The Optical Society.

H-index

H-index indicates the number of articles published by a journal/publisher, h, that have been cited at least h times. h5-index and h10-index are the h-index for papers of a publishers/journals published in the last 5 and 10 years, respectively. h-index, h10-index, and h5-index of the documents published by The Optical Society, are 416, 184, and 100, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 3269, 1489, and 795, respectively.

G-index

The g-index indicator is the first g papers of a publisher/journal (sorted by the highest to the lowest number of citations) that have cumulatively received at least g^2 citations. Again, g5-index and g10-index are the g-index for papers of a publishers/journals published in the last 5 and 10 years, respectively. G-index, g10-index, and g5-index of the documents published by The Optical Society are 38, 21, and 14, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 131, 80, and 55, respectively.

I-n index

I-n index shows the number of publications of a publisher/journal with at least n citations. Read another post here for more detailed information on different research impact metrics. It is to be noted that, i10-index, i25-index, i50-index, i100-index, i250-index, i500-index, i1000-index, i2500-index, i5000-index, and i10000-index of the documents published by The Optical Society, are 95161, 44929, 19004, 6271, 1103, 294, 78, 6, 0, and 0, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 21796896, 10617845, 4822066, 1785083, 390499, 114230, 31648, 5505, 1423, and 355, respectively.

Top Journals

This section provides the basic bibliometrics data of the The Optical Society top journals, including the number of published documents, total citations, and citations per document. Share of documents and citations of each journal among all published documents by The Optical Society is also presented here. In the following tag cloud chart, top journals are displayed based on the largest number of published documents.

The Top 5 journals of The Optical Society based on the number of published documents are Optics Express, Applied Optics, Optics Letters, Journal of the Optical Society of America, and Journal of the Optical Society of America B. The numbers of documents published so far by these top 5 journals are 50270, 44674, 37626, 16058, and 13775, respectively. These numbers are equal to 15.630%, 13.890%, 11.699%, 4.993%, and 4.283% of the total documents published by The Optical Society so far, respectively.

Concerning the number of received citations, the top 5 journals of The Optical Society are Optics Express, Optics Letters, Applied Optics, Journal of the Optical Society of America, and Journal of the Optical Society of America A. The total number of citations received so far by these top 5 journals are 50270, 37626, 44674, 16058, and 11600, respectively. These numbers are equal to 1.193%, 0.893%, 1.060%, 0.381%, and 0.275% of the total citations received by The Optical Society publications so far, respectively.

Regarding the number of citations received per document, the top 5 journals of The Optical Society are Advances in Optics and Photonics, Optics Letters, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Optica, and Optics Express. The numbers of citations received per published document so far by these top 5 journals are 97.333, 27.340, 24.411, 23.000, and 21.891, respectively.

Top Keywords

The Most used keywords are of particular importance for reviewing a publisher. This section provides detailed information about basic bibliometrics data of top used keywords in The Optical Society. The metrics used here are the number of documents, citations and citations per document. Share of documents and citations of each keyword among whole published documents is also presented here. In the following tag cloud chart, top keywords are displayed based on the largest number of published documents.

According to the number of published documents, the top 10 keywords of the publisher The Optical Society are photonic crystal, fiber laser, optical fiber, harmonic generation, three dimensional, optical coherence, high power, refractive index, optical coherence tomography, and mid infrared, respectively. The number of published documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 5179, 3941, 3444, 3039, 3016, 2911, 2871, 2789, 2500, and 2463, respectively.

Based on the number of received citations, the top 10 keywords of the publisher The Optical Society are photonic crystal, optical coherence, fiber laser, three dimensional, optical coherence tomography, refractive index, optical fiber, optical fibers, optical properties, and single mode, respectively. The number of citations received by the documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 5179, 2911, 3941, 3016, 2500, 2789, 3444, 2254, 1975, and 2351, respectively.

Concerning the score of received citations per document, the top 10 keywords of the publisher The Optical Society are optical coherence tomography, optical coherence, phase shifting, optical properties, saturable absorber, photonic crystal fiber, light scattering, crystal fiber, three dimensional, and optical fibers, respectively. The score of citations received per document in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 25.534, 24.711, 24.419, 23.220, 23.091, 23.050, 22.398, 22.000, 21.652, and 21.369, respectively.