Optical Materials Express

Optical Materials Express is a monthly peer-reviewed and open access scientific journal published by Optica. Founded in 2011, it covers advances in and applications of optical materials, including but not limited to nonlinear optical materials, laser media, nanomaterials, metamaterials and biomaterials. Its editor-in-chief is Andrea Alù (City University of New York).^[1] The founding editor-in-chief was David J. Hagan.^[2]

Optical Materials Express

Discipline	Optics, photonics, materials science
Language	English
Edited by	Andrea Alù
Publication details
History	2011–present
Publisher	Optica
Frequency	Monthly
Open access	Yes
Impact factor	3.1 (2024)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Opt. Mater. Express
Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	OMEPAX
ISSN	2159-3930
LCCN	2011201829
OCLC no.	696022710
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology^[3]
• Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences^[3]
• Directory of Open Access Journals^[4]
• Ei Compendex^[5]
• Inspec^[6]
• Science Citation Index Expanded^[3]
• Scopus^[4]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024 impact factor of 3.1.^[7]