BiomedicalPublications

Journal of Biomedical Optics

SPIE·United States·ISSN 1083-3668

Open accessIn DOAJFee waivers availableEngineering

Cost to publish

$1,675

Open-access article processing charge, list price.

Time to publication

19 wks

Broadly typical for the field.

h-index

183

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 Journal of Biomedical Optics is listed at $1,675. 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
Author keeps copyrightYes
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 Journal of Biomedical Optics publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.

Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy TechniquesPhotoacoustic and Ultrasonic ImagingOptical Coherence Tomography ApplicationsAdvanced Fluorescence Microscopy TechniquesSpectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical ResearchPhotodynamic Therapy Research StudiesNon-Invasive Vital Sign MonitoringNanoplatforms for cancer theranosticsSpectroscopy and Chemometric AnalysesThermography and Photoacoustic Techniques

Publication record

Indexed articles7,818
Total citations292,686
i10-index5,625
Most recent indexed article2026
Open access since2019
All ISSNs1083-3668, 1560-2281

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.