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Best Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics journals

232 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 61 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Nature Nanotechnology 57.8 99th Q1 SCIE – No
2 Nature Photonics 51.9 99th Q1 SCIE – No
3 eLight 50.8 98th Q1 SCIE – Yes
4 Advances in Optics and Photonics 49.6 98th Q1 SCIE – No
5 Opto-Electronic Science 32 98th Q1 ESCI – Yes
6 Opto-Electronic Advances 31.7 97th Q1 SCIE – Yes
7 Light: Science and Applications 31.6 97th Q1 SCIE – Yes
8 Advanced Photonics 25.2 96th Q1 SCIE – Yes
9 PhotoniX 24.4 96th Q1 SCIE – Yes
10 ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 21 96th Q1 SCIE – No
11 Progress in Quantum Electronics 19.7 95th Q1 SCIE – No
12 Nano Research 18.5 95th Q1 SCIE – Yes
13 Optica 16.3 94th Q1 SCIE – Yes
14 Ultrafast Science 15.2 94th Q1 ESCI – Yes
15 Microsystems and Nanoengineering 14.2 94th Q1 SCIE – Yes
16 Laser and Photonics Reviews 14.1 93rd Q1 SCIE – No
17 Photoacoustics 13.9 93rd Q1 SCIE – Yes
18 Nanophotonics 12.6 92nd Q1 SCIE – Yes
19 Photonics Research 12.4 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
20 SciPost Physics Lecture Notes 12.2 91st Q1 – – Yes
21 Advanced Optical Materials 12.1 91st Q1 SCIE – No
22 Sensors and Actuators Reports 10.6 91st Q1 SCIE – Yes
23 International Journal of Photoenergy 10.6 90th Q1 SCIE – Yes
24 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 10.5 90th Q1 SCIE – Yes
25 ACS Photonics 10.4 89th Q1 SCIE – No
26 Journal of Molecular Liquids 10.3 89th Q1 – – No
27 ISPRS Open Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 9.9 89th Q1 ESCI – Yes
28 Solar RRL 9.6 88th Q1 SCIE – No
29 Ukrainian Journal of Physical Optics 9.6 88th Q1 SCIE – No
30 Sensors 9.4 87th Q1 SCIE – Yes
31 Nanoscale Advances 9.2 87th Q1 SCIE – Yes
32 Frontiers in Nanotechnology 9.1 87th Q1 ESCI – Yes
33 Spectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 9 86th Q1 SCIE – No
34 Quantum 8.9 86th Q1 SCIE – Yes
35 International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer 8.8 85th Q1 SCIE – No
36 Optik 8.8 85th Q1 – – No
37 Applied Nanoscience (Switzerland) 8.8 84th Q1 – – No
38 Nano-Structures and Nano-Objects 8.5 84th Q1 – – No
39 Optics and Laser Technology 8.4 84th Q1 SCIE – No
40 Chemical Physics Impact 8 83rd Q1 ESCI – Yes
41 Quantum Science and Technology 8 83rd Q1 SCIE – No
42 Optical Materials 7.9 82nd Q1 SCIE – No
43 NPJ Nanophotonics 7.8 82nd Q1 – – Yes
44 High Power Laser Science and Engineering 7.7 82nd Q1 SCIE – Yes
45 Matter and Radiation at Extremes 7.7 81st Q1 SCIE – Yes
46 APL Photonics 7.6 81st Q1 SCIE – Yes
47 Journal of Luminescence 7.4 80th Q1 SCIE – No
48 Microelectronic Engineering 7.4 80th Q1 SCIE – No
49 JPhys Photonics 7.3 80th Q1 ESCI – Yes
50 Photonic Sensors 7.3 79th Q1 SCIE – Yes
51 Advanced Devices and Instrumentation 7.2 79th Q1 ESCI – Yes
52 IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences 7.2 79th Q1 ESCI – No
53 Optics and Lasers in Engineering 7.1 78th Q1 SCIE – No
54 EPJ Quantum Technology 7.1 77th Q1 SCIE – Yes
55 LEUKOS - Journal of Illuminating Engineering Society of North America 7.1 77th Q1 SCIE – No
56 AVS Quantum Science 7 77th Q1 ESCI – No
57 Nano Futures 6.9 76th Q1 SCIE – No
58 IET Nanodielectrics 6.8 76th Q1 ESCI – Yes
59 Micro and Nano Engineering 6.8 75th Q1 ESCI – Yes
60 Infrared Physics and Technology 6.5 75th Q1 SCIE – No
61 Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures 6.5 75th Q1 SCIE – No
62 Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy 6.4 74th Q2 SCIE – No
63 JPhys Materials 6.3 74th Q2 SCIE – Yes
64 Biomedical Optics Express 6.3 73rd Q2 SCIE – Yes
65 Journal of Optical Communications 6.3 73rd Q2 – – No
66 Optics Express 6.1 73rd Q2 SCIE – Yes
67 Smart Materials and Structures 6.1 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
68 Optical Materials: X 6 72nd Q2 – – Yes
69 Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables 6 71st Q2 SCIE – No
70 Methods and Applications in Fluorescence 6 71st Q2 SCIE – No
71 Materials for Quantum Technology 5.9 70th Q2 ESCI – Yes
72 Results in Optics 5.9 70th Q2 ESCI – Yes
73 Journal of Biomedical Optics 5.9 69th Q2 SCIE – Yes
74 Optics Letters 5.9 69th Q2 SCIE – Yes
75 IEEE Photonics Journal 5.8 69th Q2 SCIE – Yes
76 Advances in Nano Research 5.7 68th Q2 SCIE – No
77 IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility 5.7 68th Q2 SCIE – No
78 Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 5.6 68th Q2 SCIE – No
79 Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry 5.3 67th Q2 ESCI – Yes
80 Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics 5.3 67th Q2 SCIE – No
81 Optical Fiber Technology 5.3 66th Q2 SCIE – No
82 Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications 5.2 66th Q2 SCIE – No
83 Quantum Frontiers 5.2 66th Q2 – – Yes
84 Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences 5.1 65th Q2 SCIE – Yes
85 Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics 5.1 65th Q2 SCIE – No
86 Journal of Optics and Photonics Research 5.1 64th Q2 – – No
87 Physical Review A 4.9 64th Q2 SCIE – No
88 Journal of Computational Electronics 4.9 63rd Q2 SCIE – No
89 Journal of Nanoparticle Research 4.9 63rd Q2 SCIE – No
90 Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics and Materials 4.9 63rd Q2 SCIE – No
91 Advanced Optical Technologies 4.8 62nd Q2 ESCI – Yes
92 IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 4.8 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
93 International Journal of Quantum Chemistry 4.7 61st Q2 SCIE – No
94 Photonic Network Communications 4.7 61st Q2 SCIE – No
95 SciPost Physics Core 4.7 61st Q2 ESCI – Yes
96 Frontiers in Photonics 4.7 60th Q2 ESCI – Yes
97 Ultramicroscopy 4.7 60th Q2 SCIE – No
98 Optics Communications 4.7 59th Q2 SCIE – No
99 Chinese Optics Letters 4.6 59th Q2 SCIE – No
100 Interactions 4.5 59th Q2 – – No
101 Journal of Photonics for Energy 4.5 58th Q2 SCIE – No
102 Microelectronics Reliability 4.5 58th Q2 SCIE – No
103 Journal of Applied Physics 4.4 57th Q2 SCIE – No
104 Journal of Optics (United Kingdom) 4.4 57th Q2 SCIE – No
105 Journal of Spectroscopy 4.3 56th Q2 SCIE – Yes
106 International Journal of Optics 4.2 56th Q2 SCIE – Yes
107 IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics 4.2 55th Q2 SCIE – No
108 Microelectronics Journal 4.2 55th Q2 SCIE – No
109 Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering 4.2 54th Q2 SCIE – No
110 Fullerenes Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures 4.1 54th Q2 SCIE – No
111 Journal of Optics (India) 4.1 54th Q2 ESCI – No
112 IET Optoelectronics 4 53rd Q2 SCIE – Yes
113 Journal of Biological Physics 4 53rd Q2 SCIE – No
114 Journal of the Society for Information Display 4 52nd Q2 SCIE – No
115 Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics 3.9 52nd Q2 SCIE – No
116 Probability and Mathematical Physics 3.9 52nd Q2 ESCI – No
117 ACS Applied Optical Materials 3.9 51st Q2 ESCI – No
118 Laser and Particle Beams 3.9 51st Q2 SCIE – Yes
119 Photonics 3.9 50th Q2 SCIE – Yes
120 IET Science, Measurement and Technology 3.8 50th Q2 SCIE – Yes
121 Journal of Optical Microsystems 3.8 50th Q2 ESCI – No
122 Journal of Holography Applications in Physics 3.8 49th Q3 – – Yes
123 ChemPhysChem 3.7 49th Q3 SCIE – No
124 Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 3.6 48th Q3 SCIE – No
125 Physica Scripta 3.4 48th Q3 SCIE – No
126 Applied Optics 3.4 47th Q3 SCIE – No
127 International Journal of Particle Therapy 3.4 47th Q3 ESCI – Yes
128 Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications 3.3 47th Q3 SCIE – Yes
129 Few-Body Systems 3.3 46th Q3 SCIE – No
130 Quantum Beam Science 3.2 46th Q3 ESCI – Yes
131 Computer Optics 3.2 45th Q3 ESCI – Yes
132 Journal of Laser Applications 3.2 45th Q3 SCIE – No
133 Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision 3.1 45th Q3 SCIE – No
134 Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials 3.1 44th Q3 SCIE – No
135 Magnetic Resonance 3.1 44th Q3 – – Yes
136 Zhongguo Jiguang/Chinese Journal of Lasers 3.1 43rd Q3 ESCI – No
137 European Physical Journal D 3 43rd Q3 SCIE – No
138 Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 2.9 43rd Q3 SCIE – No
139 Atoms 2.9 42nd Q3 ESCI – Yes
140 Taiyangneng Xuebao/Acta Energiae Solaris Sinica 2.9 42nd Q3 – – No
141 Guangxue Xuebao/Acta Optica Sinica 2.8 41st Q3 ESCI – No
142 Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy 2.8 41st Q3 SCIE – No
143 Optics Continuum 2.8 40th Q3 ESCI – Yes
144 Quantum Reports 2.7 40th Q3 ESCI – Yes
145 Optics 2.6 40th Q3 ESCI – Yes
146 Microelectronics International 2.6 39th Q3 SCIE – No
147 Optical Engineering 2.6 39th Q3 SCIE – No
148 Advanced Physical Research 2.5 38th Q3 – – No
149 Journal of Low Temperature Physics 2.5 38th Q3 SCIE – No
150 Optoelectronics Letters 2.5 38th Q3 ESCI – No
151 Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences: Technical Sciences 2.5 37th Q3 SCIE – Yes
152 Microwave and Optical Technology Letters 2.5 37th Q3 SCIE – No
153 International Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2.4 36th Q3 – – No
154 Journal of Electronic Imaging 2.4 36th Q3 SCIE – No
155 Spectroscopy Letters 2.4 36th Q3 SCIE – No
156 Applied Magnetic Resonance 2.4 35th Q3 SCIE – No
157 Spectroscopy (Santa Monica) 2.3 35th Q3 SCIE – No
158 Chinese Optics 2.3 34th Q3 ESCI – No
159 Digest Journal of Nanomaterials and Biostructures 2.3 34th Q3 SCIE – Yes
160 International Journal of Modern Physics A 2.3 33rd Q3 SCIE – No
161 Laser Physics 2.3 33rd Q3 SCIE – No
162 Newton 2.2 33rd Q3 – – No
163 Quanta 2.2 32nd Q3 – – Yes
164 Synchrotron Radiation News 2.2 32nd Q3 – – No
165 Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy 2.1 31st Q3 – – No
166 Fiber and Integrated Optics 2.1 31st Q3 SCIE – No
167 Guangxue Jingmi Gongcheng/Optics and Precision Engineering 2.1 31st Q3 – – No
168 Infrared and Laser Engineering 2.1 30th Q3 – – No
169 Journal of Micromechanics and Molecular Physics 2.1 30th Q3 – – No
170 Laser and Optoelectronics Progress 2.1 29th Q3 ESCI – No
171 Journal of Modern Optics 2 29th Q3 SCIE – No
172 Semiconductor Physics, Quantum Electronics and Optoelectronics 1.9 29th Q3 ESCI – Yes
173 Aerosol Research 1.9 28th Q3 – – Yes
174 Optical Review 1.9 28th Q3 SCIE – No
175 Mass Spectrometry 1.8 27th Q3 – – Yes
176 Quantum Studies: Mathematics and Foundations 1.8 27th Q3 ESCI – No
177 European Journal of Mass Spectrometry 1.8 26th Q3 SCIE – No
178 Journal of Russian Laser Research 1.8 26th Q3 SCIE – No
179 Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics 1.7 26th Q3 ESCI – No
180 Handbook of Magnetic Materials 1.7 25th Q3 – – No
181 Journal of Biomedical Photonics and Engineering 1.7 25th Q3 – – Yes
182 Current Optics and Photonics 1.7 24th Q4 SCIE – No
183 Guangzi Xuebao/Acta Photonica Sinica 1.6 24th Q4 ESCI – No
184 JP Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 1.6 24th Q4 – – No
185 Carbon Nanostructures 1.6 23rd Q4 – – No
186 SPIN 1.5 23rd Q4 SCIE – No
187 Hongwai Yu Haomibo Xuebao/Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves 1.5 22nd Q4 SCIE – No
188 Progress in Physics of Applied Materials 1.5 22nd Q4 – – Yes
189 Journal of Imaging Science and Technology 1.3 21st Q4 SCIE – No
190 Optics and Photonics News 1.2 21st Q4 – – No
191 Journal of Applied Optics 1.2 20th Q4 – – No
192 Journal of Optical Technology (A Translation of Opticheskii Zhurnal) 1.1 20th Q4 SCIE – No
193 Isi Bilimi Ve Teknigi Dergisi/ Journal of Thermal Science and Technology 1.1 19th Q4 SCIE – No
194 Jiguang Jishu/Laser Technology 1.1 19th Q4 – – No
195 Semiconductors 1.1 19th Q4 SCIE – No
196 Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials 1.1 18th Q4 SCIE – No
197 Qiangjiguang Yu Lizishu/High Power Laser and Particle Beams 1.1 18th Q4 – – No
198 Optica Applicata 1 17th Q4 SCIE – No
199 Sakarya University Journal of Science 1 17th Q4 – – Yes
200 Lasers in Engineering 0.9 16th Q4 SCIE – No
201 Journal of Chinese Mass Spectrometry Society 0.9 15th Q4 – – Yes
202 Nonlinear Optics Quantum Optics 0.9 15th Q4 ESCI – No
203 Solid State Phenomena 0.9 15th Q4 – – No
204 Optica Pura y Aplicada 0.9 14th Q4 ESCI – No
205 Scientific and Technical Journal of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics 0.9 14th Q4 – – Yes
206 Progress in Optical Science and Photonics 0.9 13th Q4 – – No
207 Physics of Wave Processes and Radio Systems 0.9 12th Q4 – – Yes
208 RSC Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 0.9 12th Q4 – – No
209 Optics and Spectroscopy (English translation of Optika i Spektroskopiya) 0.7 11th Q4 SCIE – No
210 Guangxue Jishu/Optical Technique 0.7 10th Q4 – – No
211 Photonics Russia 0.7 10th Q4 – – No
212 Physics of Atomic Nuclei 0.7 10th Q4 SCIE – No
213 Physics of Particles and Nuclei Letters 0.7 9th Q4 ESCI – No
214 Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science 0.6 8th Q4 ESCI – No
215 Magnetic Resonance in Solids 0.6 8th Q4 ESCI – Yes
216 Emergent Scientist 0.5 8th Q4 – – Yes
217 International Journal of Nano and Biomaterials 0.5 7th Q4 – – No
218 St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University Journal: Physics and Mathematics 0.5 6th Q4 – – No
219 HNPS Advances in Nuclear Physics 0.4 6th Q4 – – No
220 Adiyaman University Journal of Science 0.3 5th Q4 – – No
221 Neutron News 0.3 5th Q4 – – No
222 International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Photonics, EExPolytech 0.3 4th Q4 – – No
223 Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics 0.3 4th Q4 – – No
224 Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference, OECC 0.2 3rd Q4 – – No
225 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer and Communications, ICCC 0.1 3rd Q4 – – No
226 Synthesis Lectures on Image, Video, and Multimedia Processing 0.1 3rd Q4 – – No
227 Photonics Spectra 0.1 2nd Q4 – – No
228 Lighting Design and Application: LD and A 0 1st Q4 – – No
229 Photonics North, PN 0 1st Q4 – – No
230 UK, Europe, China Millimetre Waves and THZ Technology Workshop, UCMMT 0 1st Q4 – – No
231 International Conference on Electronic Measurement and Instruments 0 0th Q4 – – No
232 LIA Today 0 0th Q4 – – No

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