Nature Photonics
Last updated ISSN 1749-4885
Nature Photonics is published by Nature Portfolio in engineering. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $12,690.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Nature Photonics concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Photonic and Optical Devices
- Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
- Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
- Mechanical and Optical Resonators
- Photonic Crystals and Applications
- Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
- Quantum optics and atomic interactions
- Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
- Perovskite Materials and Applications
Key facts
| Publisher | Nature Portfolio |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1749-4885, 1749-4893 |
| Subject area | Engineering |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $12,690 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 5,299 |
| Publishing since | 2003 |
| Journal website | www.nature.com/nphoton/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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