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Chinese Optics Letters


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*Average Peer Review
About 1.8 month(s)
*Competitiveness
60%
CiteScore
4.6
CiteScore Rank
Subject Area Rank Percentile
Category: Engineering
Subcategory: Electrical and Electronic Engineering		 349 / 1030
Category: Engineering
Subcategory: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics		 99 / 243
Category: Engineering
Subcategory: Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials		 137 / 318
Link to PubMed Central (PMC)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog?term=1671-7694%5BISSN%5D

Indexing (SCI collection)
Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
Scopus (CiteScore)

Country/Area of Publication
PEOPLES R CHINA
Publication Frequency
Monthly
Publisher
Science Press

ISSN
1671-7694
E-ISSN
Year Publication Started
2003

Self-citation (2025-2026)
8.00%
Annual Article Volume
314
Gold OA Percentage
0.12%

Open Access Info
APC APC Waiver Other Charges
N/A N/A N/A
Journal Aim & Scope
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 The Optical Society (OSA) Publishing Digital Library 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 is published monthly by Chinese Laser Press, and distributed by OSA outside of Chinese Mainland.

Web of Science Quartiles
WOS Quartile: Q3

Quartiles By JIFCollectionQuartileRankPercentage
Category: OPTICSSCIEQ365/129
Quartiles By JCICollectionQuartileRankPercentage
Category: OPTICSSCIEQ248/129
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