PhotoniX

PhotoniX is a fully open access, peer-reviewed journal published by Springer (SpringerOpen) on behalf of the Chinese Society for Optical Engineering, launched in March 2020, covering cross-disciplinary photonics research and reporting a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 18.0（PhotoniX）是由（Springer）旗下的（SpringerOpen）代表（Chinese Society for Optical Engineering）出版的全开放获取同行评审期刊，2020 年 3 月创刊，覆盖光子学交叉学科研究，2025 年影响因子为 18.0。

Scope

• It promotes X-disciplinary research and presents progress in engineering applications and breakthroughs in scientific discovery enabled by photonics该刊推动 X 学科交叉研究，展示由光子学赋能的研究进展与工程应用突破。
• Original scientific letters, articles, reviews and technology progress reports are all welcome该刊欢迎原创科学快报、研究论文、综述与技术进展报告。
• Topics include light manipulation and applications as well as beam propagation and steering techniques主题包括光操控与应用以及光束传播与调控技术。
• Others are optical communication, storage, information processing and computing主题还包括光通信、光学存储、信息处理与计算。
• It also covers photonics for big data and artificial intelligence, astrophotonics and aero-space optics还涵盖面向大数据与人工智能的光子学、天体光子学与航空航天光学。
• Further topics are optical sensing, terahertz and X-ray optics and green technologies还包括光学传感、太赫兹与 X 射线光学以及绿色技术。
• The journal also spans small-scale optics, nonlinear optics, optoelectronics, meta optics and bionics还涵盖小尺度光学、非线性光学、光电子学、超表面光学与仿生学。

History

• It was launched in March 2020, with its first volume published that year该刊于 2020 年 3 月创刊，同年出版第 1 卷。^[1]
• It is published by Springer (SpringerOpen) as the official journal of the Chinese Society for Optical Engineering该刊由（Springer）旗下的（SpringerOpen）出版，为（Chinese Society for Optical Engineering）官方会刊。
• The journal is co-sponsored by Tsinghua University, the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology and Westlake University该刊由（Tsinghua University）（University of Shanghai for Science and Technology）与（Westlake University）联合主办。
• It is fully open access, so every article is free and permanently online, with authors retaining copyright under a CC BY license该刊为全开放获取，所有论文即时免费永久上线，作者在 CC BY 许可下保留版权。
• It operates single-blind peer review, typically with two or three expert reviewers该刊采用单盲同行评审，通常由 2 至 3 位专家评审。
• Its Journal Impact Factor was 19.8 in 2022, 19.1 in 2024 and 18.0 in 2025, with a 2024 five-year Impact Factor of 19.3其影响因子 2022 年为 19.8，2024 年为 19.1，2025 年为 18.0，2024 年五年影响因子为 19.3。
• It is indexed in SCIE, Scopus, EI Compendex and DOAJ, ranking Q1 in Optics with a 2025 JIF rank of 8 out of 129该刊被（SCIE）（Scopus）（EI Compendex）与（DOAJ）收录，在光学类别为 Q1，2025 年 JIF 排名为 129 名中的第 8。
• SCImago reports an h-index of 52 for the journal（SCImago）记为 h 指数 52。

Editors

• Songlin Zhuang is Honorary Editor-in-Chief and is based at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology（Songlin Zhuang）为名誉主编，任职于（University of Shanghai for Science and Technology）。
• Its Co-Editors-in-Chief are Min Gu of the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Min Qiu of Westlake University and Hongbo Sun of Tsinghua University共同主编为（University of Shanghai for Science and Technology）的（Min Gu）、（Westlake University）的（Min Qiu）与（Tsinghua University）的（Hongbo Sun）。
• Deputy Editors include Qiwen Zhan, Xiaoyi Bao of the University of Ottawa and Yi Luo of Tsinghua University副主编包括（Qiwen Zhan）、（University of Ottawa）的（Xiaoyi Bao）与（Tsinghua University）的（Yi Luo）。
• Board members come from China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Australia and Japan编委会成员来自中国、美国、英国、德国、加拿大、澳大利亚与日本。
• Editorial board members include Eli Yablonovitch and Satoshi Kawata, with Ziyang Zhang of Westlake University as Managing Editor编委包括（Eli Yablonovitch）与（Satoshi Kawata），（Westlake University）的（Ziyang Zhang）任执行编辑。
• Jin Li of the Chinese Society for Optical Engineering serves as Editorial Director（Chinese Society for Optical Engineering）的（Jin Li）任编辑部主任。