mentu1561 2022-12-12

May I ask what is the submission website of iop? Could you please provide it?

丛林土鳖 2022-10-03

Try not to submit your work during the summer vacation. My first submission was not during the summer vacation, and the review process was fast. The second submission, which was during the summer vacation, was very slow. It is evident that the speed increased after the summer vacation.

我是山大王呀 2022-09-22

May I ask, when submitting a contribution, is it required to upload a copyright transfer form? How should I go about doing this?

我是山大王呀 2022-09-22

May I ask, when submitting a contribution, it is required to upload a copyright transfer form. How should I go about doing this?

申小小 2022-01-14

Excuse me, does JO charge a layout fee, or is it optional? Also, may I ask what the copyright transfer uploaded during submission is used for?

Phenom 2021-11-19

Initial review takes about a month, and after major revisions, the second review also takes about a month. Minor revisions are accepted after one week. The entire process takes two and a half months.

The reviewers are very meticulous, asking professional and objective questions without requiring references to other papers. If the answers are not detailed enough, the reviewers may even provide their own calculations in the second round of questioning.

Overall, the reviewers have a rigorous attitude and high expertise. Their questions are precise and they won't overlook any lack of detail or loopholes in the answers.

The journal is not open access, but it feels more rigorous and objective compared to some open access journals in OSA's second-tier category. The level of papers published in this journal also seems to be more consistent.

It has a certain reputation in Europe, and personally, I feel that it is a step higher academically compared to a journal with an impact factor of 1.98 in OSA or a domestically established journal in OSA's third-tier category. The recent feeling with some open access journals in the second-tier category is that they rely a bit on luck, and the quality varies greatly, making it difficult to make comparisons.

In summary, this journal is not particularly fast in terms of speed, and its categorization seems inexplicably downgraded. If one is in a hurry to publish in SCI, or has specific needs regarding categorization, the cost-effectiveness of this journal should be considered.

志成 2021-07-04

May I ask if the response letter should be individually replied to each reviewer in a separate Word document, or if it should be collectively replied to in one Word document?

yjvlc 2021-06-22

Does this "97 days" refer to the total time it takes from submission to acceptance?

jerry瑞雪 2021-04-18

Is optical review strict?

yjvlc 2021-03-09

Hello, I heard that this section is free of charge. Does it mean that both submitting and receiving contributions are free of charge? The budget is quite limited.

yjvlc 2021-03-09

Hello, is this section free of charge, meaning it doesn't cost anything to submit and receive contributions? The budget is limited.

笑忘书 2021-01-12

There is also a journal under Springer with the same name, which is not the SCI journal under IOP, but is said to be indexed in EI.

The information about that journal is as follows, please pay attention to distinguish it:
The Journal of Optics is a quarterly publication of the Optical Society of India.

https://www.springer.com/journal/12596
https://www.editorialmanager.com/opti/default.aspx

Electronic ISSN
0974-6900

Print ISSN
0972-8821

笑忘书 2021-01-12

Journal metrics are measurements used to evaluate the performance and impact of a journal. The following metrics are based on the data from the previous full year. The median figures are used for peer review times unless specified otherwise.

Peer review metrics
The time taken from submission to the first decision before peer review is 11 days.
The time taken from submission to the first decision after peer review is 60 days.
The overall time taken from submission to the first decision (including articles rejected before peer review) is 20 days.
The time taken from submission to final acceptance after peer review and any author revisions is 97 days.
The acceptance rate is 27%.