Journal History
| 2014 | Photonics released its inaugural issue and was published as a quarterly journal. |
| 2016 | Photonics was indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)—Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), starting with Volume 1 (Issue 1). Photonics published 21 papers in the Special Issue on Quantum Cascade Lasers—Advances and New Applications, edited by Photonics Editorial Board member, Prof. Dr. Manijeh Razeghi. |
| 2017 | Photonics was indexed in Scopus (Elsevier), starting with Volume 1 (Issue 1). |
| 2018 | Photonics received its first CiteScore of 1.96 (2017 Scopus data). |
| 2019 | Photonics was indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)—Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), starting with Volume 1 (Issue 1). Photonics’s CiteScore (2018 Scopus data) was 2.16. |
| 2020 | Photonics’s CiteScore (2019 Scopus data) was 2.90. Photonics received its first Impact Factor: 2.140, ranking 48/97 (Q2) in the category ‘OPTICS’. The journal was divided into eight topical sections: Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics, Optical Communication and Network, Optoelectronics and Optical Materials, Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors, Optical Interaction Science, Quantum Photonics and Technologies, Data-Science Based Techniques in Photonics, New Applications Enabled by Photonics Technologies and Systems. Prof. Dr. Sergio Fantini was nominated as Associate Editor by the Editor-in-Chief. |
| 2021 |
Photonics changed to a monthly publication schedule. Photonics’s CiteScore (2020 Scopus data) was 3.50. Photonics received an increased Impact Factor of 2.676, ranking 37th out of 99 (Q2) in the category 'OPTICS'. |
| 2022 |
Photonics’s CiteScore (2021 Scopus data) was 2.3. Photonics received its Impact Factor (2021) of 2.536, 5-Year Impact Factor (2021) of 2.302. |
| 2023 |
Photonics’s CiteScore (2022 Scopus data) was 2.3. Photonics received its Impact Factor (2022) of 2.4, 5-Year Impact Factor (2022) of 2.4. |
| 2024 | The year 2024 marks the 10th Anniversary of Photonics. |
Editors-in-Chief
| 2014–present | Founding Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Nelson Tansu |
| 2020–present |
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Huabei Jiang for Section “Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics” Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Michael Brodsky for Section “Quantum Photonics and Technologies” |
