Journal of the Optical Society of America A

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JOSA A has published a new editorial from Editor-in-Chief P. Scott Carney, in which he introduces the Journal’s newest Topical Editors, Irina V. Larina and Jonathan Petruccelli. (12 Nov 2019)

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Optics in Africa (2020) Submissions Open: 15 March 2020; Submission Deadline: 1 May 2020 Andrew Forbes, Rim Cherif, Alain Dikande, Angela Dudley, and Ahmadou Wague
Advances in Optical Metrology and Instrumentation (2020) Submissions Open: 15 February 2020; Submission Deadline: 1 April 2020 Jonathan D. Ellis, Han Haitjema, Xiangqian (Jane) Jiang, Ki-Nam Joo, and Richard Leach
Color Vision 2020 (2020) Submissions Open: 1 October 2019; Submission Deadline: 1 November 2019 John S. Werner, Jenny Bosten, David Hoyt Brainard, Marina V. Danilova, Sergejs Fomins, Anya Hurlbert, and Neil Parry
Classical Optics in France (2019) Published Yannick Berthoumieu, Christine Fernandez-Maloigne, David Alleysson, Sylvain Gigan, and Olivier Haeberlé

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Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics (6)
Coherence and Statistical Optics (2)
Color, Spectroscopy, and Spectral Imaging (1)
Computational Sensing and Imaging (1)
Diffraction and Gratings (2)
Geometrical Optics (2)
Holography (1)
Imaging Systems (1)
Numerical Methods and Simulation (3)
Physical Optics (1)

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2018 Impact Factor:: 1.861
Google Scholar h5-index:: 35
Time to Publication:: 107 days

ISSN:: 1084-7529 (print)
ISSN:: 1520-8532 (online)
Frequency:: Article-at-a-time publication; Monthly issues

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