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Biomedical Optics Express

Optica Publishing Group·United States·ISSN 2156-7085

Open accessIn DOAJFee waivers availableEngineering

Biomedical Optics Express is published by Browse by publisher as an open access journal (ISSN 2156-7085). The list article processing charge is $1,913. Typical time to publication is 10 wks. Its OpenAlex h-index is 134. Primary field: Engineering. It is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Fee waivers are stated as available. Figures on this page are sourced from OpenAlex and DOAJ and should be confirmed on the journal’s own site before submission.

Cost to publish

$1,913

Open-access article processing charge, list price.

Checked · Journal fee page

Time to publication

10 wks

Broadly typical for the field.

h-index

134

OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.

2-year mean citedness

3.4

Average citations to articles from the previous two years.

What it costs to publish here

Publishing an open-access article in Biomedical Optics Express is listed at $1,913. The journal reports that fee waivers are available — worth pursuing if you are funding this yourself or working from a lower-income country.

The journal's own fee page →

Peer review and licensing

Review modelAnonymous peer review (policy)
LicenceCC BY, Publisher's own license
Author keeps copyrightNo
Plagiarism screeningYes
Editorial boardPublished →
LanguagesEN

Verification checks

8 of 8 confirmed

These are facts we could verify in public records, not a verdict. A journal missing a check is not necessarily disreputable — many long-established subscription journals sit outside the open-access registries entirely. Use them as questions to ask, and confirm anything that matters directly with the journal before you submit.

  • Listed in the Directory of Open Access JournalsDOAJ applies a documented set of inclusion criteria.
  • Included in OpenAlex's curated core setOpenAlex flags well-established venues that appear across major indexes.
  • Peer review model publicly declaredAnonymous peer review
  • Publication charges stated up frontA journal that will not tell you the fee before submission is worth a second look.
  • Screens submissions for plagiarismReported to DOAJ by the journal.
  • Participates in a digital preservation schemeArchiving means the record survives if the publisher does not.
  • Assigns persistent identifiers (DOIs)Standard practice; its absence is unusual.
  • Still actively publishingMost recent indexed article: 2026.

Scope

The subjects Biomedical Optics Express publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.

Optical Coherence Tomography ApplicationsPhotoacoustic and Ultrasonic ImagingOptical Imaging and Spectroscopy TechniquesAdvanced Fluorescence Microscopy TechniquesSpectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical ResearchDigital Holography and MicroscopyRetinal Imaging and AnalysisGlaucoma and retinal disordersNon-Invasive Vital Sign MonitoringRetinal Diseases and Treatments

Publication record

Indexed articles6,645
Total citations179,806
i10-index4,314
Most recent indexed article2026
Open access since2011
All ISSNs2156-7085

Counts reflect what OpenAlex has indexed and will differ from the publisher's own figures. We do not show a founding year: OpenAlex's first-publication dates are distorted by mis-dated records — it puts PLoS ONE in 1806 — and we would rather omit a number than print one we cannot stand behind.