On 28th June, Google Scholar released the 2022 Scholar Metrics, Light: Science & Applications (LSA) ranks No.2 among all journals in optics & photonics category.

As shown in Fig. 1, the 2022 Scholar Metrics include two journal scores: 1) h5-index: representing the h-index of a journal in the past five years. For example, LSA's h5-index=101, which means, at least 101 articles published in LSA between 2017 and 2021 were cited for at least 101 times; 2) h5-median: the median of the citation counts in its h-index for the past five years. For instance, LSA’s h5-median=141, so the median of the h-index of articles published by LSA from 2017 to 2021 is 141.

Fig.1. 2022 Scholar Metrics: ranking of journals in optics & photonics category

As inferred from Scholar Metrics, in principle, the probability of higher Scholar Metrics increases with the total amount of papers published by a journal. It’s noted that LSA has the smallest 5-year publishing volume among the Top 10 optics & photonics journals (see Table 1). Nonetheless, LSA’s h5-index and h5-median rank No.2 among all optics & photonics journals, reflecting LSA has high throughput towards highly-recognized papers.

Table1. The publishing volume of Top10 optics & photonics journals between 2017 and 2021

In the future, LSA is dedicated to serving the optics community with further intelligence and insight.