News and Information

Here are recent announcements about OSA Publications. Check regularly for special issue announcements, new editors, updated pricing, new journal features, and more.

2007 ISI Rankings for OSA Journals

Optics Letters and Optics Express are the top two optics journals in ISI's Journal Citation Reports 2007 journal rankings by impact factor, at no. 1 and no. 2, respectively. JLT and JOSA B are also ranked among the top ten at nos. 9 and 10.

* The Journal Citation Report includes the OSA Journals in the category "Optics;" there are 64 total journals in that category for 2007. J. Lightwave Technolgy (JLT) is also included in the "Engineering, Electrical & Electronic" category with 227 total journals. Its 2007 rankings in that category are #19 of 227 by impact factor and #10 of 227 by Total Cites.

New OSA Journal Announced - Advances in Optics and Photonics

OSA is pleased to announce that we will be publishing a new Review Journal in January 2009, entitled Advances in Optics and Photonics.  Find out more.

OSA and Wiley have recently partnered together to produce co-branded books that will cover the broad field of optics.

OSA and Wiley have begun the collaboration with the recently published, Quantitative Imaging Tools for Lung Cancer Drug Assessment, edited by OSA members James Mulshine and Thomas Baer (OSA’s 2009 president).  

This collection of articles highlights the most recent advanced techniques of drug-based methods of detecting lung cancer including ‘state of the art’ methods for using high resolution CT imaging to evaluate how lung tumors respond to specific drug therapies. The book grew out of a 2006 workshop co-sponsored by OSA and the Prevent Cancer Foundation.  It consists of the proceedings of the workshop, representing manuscripts from many leading lung cancer clinical and medical research as well as imaging and image analysis groups. This book is particularly important addition to oncology research as lung cancer requires immediate intervention to promote patient survival. Imaging of tumors can quickly provide critical information which can be used to determine if a particular drug therapy is effective. However, current CT image analysis tools are still very crude, preventing accurate quantitative assessment of changes in a tumor’s characteristics after drug therapy.  The new imaging techniques will hopefully prove to be an improvement over current methods and lead to increased early detection and higher survival rates.  

The next book in the “series”, due to be published next year is OSA member David Brady’s Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy. This book deals with computational optical sensing which is important both as an interface to the physical world and as a component of information systems.
Potential authors are encouraged to contact OSA if they are interested in publishing under the new imprint.  The benefits of publishing with OSA/Wiley are many, not least of which is being associated and promoted by two premier publishers. Wiley plans aggressive promotion of the books and there will be a special OSA web site promoting the publications. Also the books will be clearly identified within Wiley's catalogs and special mailings as joint publications.

Title: Quantative Imaging Tools for Lung Cancer Drug Assessment
Editied by JAMES L. MULSHINE, MD and THOMAS M. BAER, PHD
ISBN: 978-0-470-11880-1
Hardback, 176pp, March 2008
Price: US$ 125. OSA members receive a 15% discount by using the membership code OSA15

Visit www.wiley.com to purchase or for more information please contact Alan Tourtlotte at 202-416-1908.

Optics Express Selected to be Indexed in MEDLINE

Optics Express will join Applied Optics, JOSA A and Optics Letters as the fourth OSA journal to be indexed in the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s MEDLINE bibliographic database.

OSA journals are now accepting submissions to the following special issues:

Applied Optics
Acousto-Optics
Editors: Monish Chatterjee, Ting-Chung Poon, Chen S. Tsai, and Vitaly Voloshinov
Submission Deadline: August 1, 2008
To be published: March 2009

Topics in Biomedical Optics
Editors: Joseph Culver, Wolfgang Drexler, Rebekah Drezek, Irene Georgakoudi, Elizabeth Hillman, and Rebecca Richards-Kortum
Submission Deadline: August 1, 2008
To be published: April 2009

Laser Applications to Chemical, Security, and Environmental Analysis
Editors: Volker Ebert, Dennis Killinger, and Thomas Settersten
Submission Deadline: July 15, 2008
To be published: February 2009

Wavefront Sensing, Imaging, and Image Enhancement
Editors: Jean J. Dolne, Brent L. Ellerbroek, Michael C. Roggeman, and Mikhail A. Vorontsov
Submission Deadline: June 1, 2008
To be published: January 2009

Journal of Optical Networking
Optical Routers
Editors: Keren Bergman, Madeleine Glick, and S. J. Ben Yoo
Submission deadline: June 30, 2008

Radio-over-Optical-Fiber Networks
Editors: Jianjun Yu, Gee-Kung Chang, Ton Koonen, and Georgios Ellinas
Submission deadline: September 1, 2008

Optical Networks for the Future Internet
Editors: Lena Wosinska, Dimitra Simeonidou, Anna Tzanakaki, Carla Raffaelli, and Christina (Tanya) Politi
Submission deadline: November 1, 2008

Thank you for Reviewers

The OSA Publications Department would like to thank the countless reviewers that have assisted in the peer review process for our journals.  Without your help OSA would not be one of the premiere venues for the dissemination of the latest research in Optics and Photonics.

New Editors

The OSA Publications Department would like to welcome three new Editors.  Dr. Alan Willner of the University of Southern California has recently become the Editor of Optics Letters, Dr. Keren Bergman of Columbia University is now the Editor of the Journal of Optical Networking, and Dr. Nasser Peyghambarian of the University of Arizona has taken the reins of the Lasers, Photonics, & Environmental Optics Division of Applied Optics.  We are grateful for their efforts, and would like to thank outgoing editors Anthony Campillo, Richard Linke, and T. Y. Fan for their years of service to the Optics community.

Journal of Lightwave Technology Change

A recent change will affect the print production of the Journal of Lightwave Technology, co-published with IEEE. As of January 2008 we will be printing only six issues per year (every other month), and no longer printing monthly issues.  However, JLT will still be published monthly on-line.

Issue dates will be: Jan, Mar, May, July, Sept, Nov.

Announcements

• OSA is a Portico participant- the agreement has been signed, and now we are just working on the details.
• Scitopia- We are now offering Scitopia.org, the free, aggregated search engine. Click the link for more info:
  

Optics InfoBase: New Content

Optics InfoBase is growing and now includes Applied Spectroscopy co-published with the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.

Chinese Optics Letters was added this year as well as the Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics.

At long last select OSA conference papers are now included in Optics InfoBase. Here you will find content that previously has not been readily accessible.

2008 Subscriptions

See our 2008 price list.

Early Posting

OSA publishes accepted articles for JOSA A, JOSA B, Optics Letters, and Applied Optics to an Early Posting page as soon as they have been cleared for production. This page is free to the general public. Early Posting articles are presented in their manuscript format as supplied by the author, and they are removed from the page once the final version has been published in an issue.

The articles are grouped according to month of acceptance and the following information is displayed: article title, listing of authors, dates manuscript received and accepted, link to full-text PDF, and author-selected OCIS codes. If you have any questions please review the information in the Early Posting FAQ page, or contact OSA Staff.