| Journal Name | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 
| ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces | 2.925 | 4.525 | 5.008 | 5.9 | 6.723 | 7.145 | 7.504 | 8.097 | 8.456 | 8.758 | ||||||
| ACS Nano | 5.472 | 7.493 | 9.865 | 10.774 | 12.062 | 12.033 | 12.881 | 13.334 | 13.942 | 13.709 | 13.903 | 14.588 | ||||
| ACS Photonics | 5.404 | 6.756 | 6.88 | 7.143 | 6.864 | |||||||||||
| Advanced Materials | 8.079 | 9.107 | 7.896 | 8.191 | 8.191 | 8.397 | 10.88 | 13.877 | 14.829 | 15.409 | 17.493 | 18.96 | 19.791 | 21.95 | 25.809 | 27.398 | 
| Advanced Functional Materials | 5.679 | 6.77 | 6.779 | 7.496 | 6.808 | 6.99 | 8.508 | 10.179 | 9.765 | 10.439 | 11.805 | 11.382 | 12.124 | 13.325 | 15.621 | 16.836 | 
| Analytical Chemistry | 5.635 | 5.646 | 5.287 | 5.712 | 5.214 | 5.874 | 5.856 | 5.695 | 5.825 | 5.636 | 5.886 | 6.32 | 6.042 | 6.35 | 6.785 | |
| Angewandte Chemie-INTERNATIONAL EDITION | 9.161 | 9.596 | 10.232 | 10.031 | 10.879 | 11.829 | 12.73 | 13.455 | 13.734 | 11.336 | 11.261 | 11.709 | 11.994 | 12.102 | 12.257 | 12.959 | 
| APL Photonics | 4.383 | 4.864 | ||||||||||||||
| Applied Optics | 1.799 | 1.637 | 1.717 | 1.701 | 1.763 | 1.41 | 1.707 | 1.748 | 1.689 | 1.649 | 1.784 | 1.598 | 1.65 | 1.791 | 1.973 | 1.961 | 
| Applied Physics A - MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING | 1.452 | 1.99 | 1.739 | 1.857 | 1.884 | 1.595 | 1.765 | 1.63 | 1.545 | 1.694 | 1.545 | 1.444 | 1.455 | 1.604 | 1.784 | 1.81 | 
| Applied Physics B - LASERS AND OPTICS | 2.215 | 2.056 | 2.023 | 2.28 | 2.167 | 1.992 | 2.24 | 2.189 | 1.782 | 1.634 | 1.856 | 1.785 | 1.696 | 1.881 | 1.769 | 1.817 | 
| Applied Physics Express | 2.223 | 2.778 | 3.013 | 2.731 | 2.567 | 2.365 | 2.265 | 2.667 | 2.555 | 2.772 | 3.086 | |||||
| Applied Physics Letters | 4.308 | 4.127 | 3.977 | 3.596 | 3.726 | 3.554 | 3.841 | 3.844 | 3.794 | 3.515 | 3.302 | 3.142 | 3.411 | 3.495 | 3.521 | 3.597 | 
| Applied Spectroscopy | 1.848 | 1.868 | 1.879 | 1.902 | 2.062 | 1.564 | 1.729 | 1.663 | 1.942 | 2.014 | 1.875 | 1.798 | 1.529 | 1.642 | 2.064 | 2.087 | 
| Applied Surface Science | 1.497 | 1.263 | 1.436 | 1.406 | 1.576 | 1.616 | 1.795 | 2.103 | 2.112 | 2.538 | 2.711 | 3.15 | 3.387 | 4.439 | 5.155 | 6.182 | 
| Biophysical Journal | 4.585 | 4.507 | 4.757 | 4.627 | 4.683 | 4.39 | 4.218 | 3.653 | 3.668 | 3.832 | 3.972 | 3.632 | 3.656 | 3.495 | 3.665 | 3.854 | 
| Chemical Communications | 4.426 | 4.521 | 5.141 | 5.34 | 5.504 | 5.787 | 6.169 | 6.378 | 6.718 | 6.834 | 6.567 | 6.319 | 6.29 | 6.164 | 5.996 | |
| Chemical Reviews | 20.233 | 20.869 | 26.054 | 22.757 | 23.592 | 35.957 | 33.036 | 40.197 | 41.298 | 45.661 | 41.298 | 37.369 | 47.928 | 52.613 | 54.301 | 52.758 | 
| Chemistry Letters | 1.65 | 1.83 | 1.734 | 1.48 | 1.478 | 1.46 | 1.401 | 1.587 | 1.594 | 1.3 | 1.23 | 1.55 | 1.801 | 1.625 | 1.485 | 1.361 | 
| Chemistry of Materials | 4.103 | 4.818 | 5.104 | 4.883 | 5.046 | 5.368 | 6.4 | 7.286 | 8.238 | 8.535 | 8.354 | 9.407 | 9.466 | 9.89 | 10.159 | 9.567 | 
| Chemical Physics Letters | 2.438 | 2.438 | 2.462 | 2.207 | 2.169 | 2.291 | 2.282 | 2.337 | 2.145 | 1.991 | 1.897 | 1.86 | 1.815 | 1.686 | 1.901 | 2.029 | 
| ChemPhysChem | 3.596 | 3.607 | 3.449 | 3.502 | 3.636 | 3.453 | 3.34 | 3.412 | 3.349 | 3.36 | 3.419 | 3.138 | 3.075 | 2.947 | 3.077 | 3.144 | 
| Japanese Journal of Applied Physics (JJAP) | 1.142 | 1.096 | 1.222 | 1.247 | 1.309 | 1.138 | 1.024 | 1.058 | 1.067 | 1.057 | 1.127 | 1.122 | 1.384 | 1.452 | 1.471 | 1.376 | 
| Journal of Applied Physics | 2.255 | 2.498 | 2.316 | 2.171 | 2.201 | 2.072 | 2.079 | 2.168 | 2.21 | 2.185 | 2.183 | 2.101 | 2.068 | 2.176 | 2.328 | 2.286 | 
| Journal of Biomedical Optics | 3.455 | 3.557 | 2.87 | 3.084 | 2.97 | 2.501 | 3.188 | 3.157 | 2.881 | 2.752 | 2.859 | 2.556 | 2.53 | 2.367 | 2.555 | 2.785 | 
| Journal of Chemical Physics | 3.105 | 3.138 | 3.166 | 3.044 | 3.149 | 3.093 | 2.921 | 3.333 | 3.164 | 3.122 | 2.952 | 2.894 | 2.965 | 2.843 | 2.997 | 2.991 | 
| Journal of Luminescence | 1.684 | 1.518 | 1.441 | 1.611 | 1.628 | 1.847 | 1.797 | 2.102 | 2.144 | 2.367 | 2.719 | 2.693 | 2.686 | 2.732 | 2.961 | 3.28 | 
| Journal of Materials Chemistry > A, B, C | 2.721 | 3.688 | 4.287 | 4.339 | 4.646 | 4.795 | 5.101 | 5.968 | ||||||||
| Journal of Materials Chemistry A | 7.443 | 8.262 | 8.867 | 9.931 | 10.733 | 11.301 | ||||||||||
| Journal of Materials Chemistry B | 4.726 | 4.872 | 4.543 | 4.776 | 5.047 | 5.344 | ||||||||||
| Journal of Materials Chemistry C | 4.696 | 5.066 | 5.256 | 5.976 | 6.641 | 7.059 | ||||||||||
| Journal of Microscopy (J MICROSC-OXFORD ) | 1.739 | 2.095 | 1.947 | 1.565 | 1.409 | 1.612 | 1.872 | 1.631 | 1.633 | 2.15 | 2.331 | 2.136 | 1.692 | 1.693 | 1.813 | 1.575 | 
| Journal of Optics A - Pure and Applied Optics > Journal of Optics | 1.231 | 1.295 | 1.604 | 1.752 | 1.742 | 1.198 | 1.662 | 1.924 | ||||||||
| Journal of Optics | 1.573 | 1.99 | 2.01 | 2.059 | 1.847 | 1.741 | 2.323 | 2.753 | 2.379 | |||||||
| Journal of Optics B - Quantum and Semiclassical Optics > Merged with Journal of Physics B | 1.746 | 1.691 | 1.509 | 1.813 | ||||||||||||
| Journal of Raman Spectroscopy | 1.996 | 1.884 | 2.133 | 3.514 | 3.526 | 3.147 | 3.137 | 3.087 | 2.679 | 2.519 | 2.671 | 2.395 | 2.969 | 2.879 | 2.809 | 2 | 
| Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A - Chemistry | 2.235 | 2.286 | 2.098 | 1.911 | 2.362 | 2.553 | 2.243 | 2.421 | 2.416 | 2.291 | 2.495 | 2.477 | 2.625 | 2.891 | 3.261 | 3.306 | 
| Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B - Biology | 1.841 | 1.597 | 1.909 | 1.919 | 1.838 | 1.871 | 2.116 | 2.814 | 3.11 | 2.803 | 2.96 | 3.035 | 2.673 | 3.165 | 4.067 | 4.383 | 
| Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C - Photochemistry Reviews | 8.167 | 7.32 | 5.731 | 5.36 | 7.952 | 10.81 | 10.36 | 8.069 | 11.625 | 16.091 | 12.162 | 12.317 | 15.325 | 10.405 | 11.952 | |
| Journal of Physical Chemistry A | 2.639 | 2.898 | 3.047 | 2.918 | 2.871 | 2.899 | 2.732 | 2.946 | 2.771 | 2.775 | 2.693 | 2.883 | 2.847 | 2.836 | 2.641 | 2.6 | 
| Journal of Physical Chemistry B | 3.834 | 4.033 | 4.115 | 4.086 | 4.189 | 3.471 | 3.603 | 3.696 | 3.607 | 3.377 | 3.302 | 3.187 | 3.177 | 3.146 | 2.923 | 2.857 | 
| Journal of Physical Chemistry C | 3.396 | 4.224 | 4.524 | 4.805 | 4.814 | 4.835 | 4.772 | 4.509 | 4.536 | 4.484 | 4.309 | 4.189 | ||||
| Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters | 6.213 | 6.585 | 6.687 | 7.458 | 8.539 | 9.353 | 8.709 | 7.329 | 6.71 | |||||||
| Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics | 1.761 | 1.913 | 2.024 | 2.012 | 2.089 | 1.91 | 1.902 | 1.875 | 2.031 | 1.916 | 1.975 | 1.833 | 1.792 | 2.119 | 2.115 | 1.703 | 
| Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics | 1.642 | 1.957 | 2.077 | 2.2 | 2.104 | 2.083 | 2.109 | 2.544 | 2.528 | 2.521 | 2.721 | 2.722 | 2.588 | 2.373 | 2.829 | 3.169 | 
| Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) | 6.903 | 7.419 | 7.696 | 7.885 | 8.091 | 8.58 | 9.023 | 9.907 | 10.677 | 11.444 | 12.113 | 13.038 | 1.3858 | 14.357 | 14.695 | 14.612 | 
| Journal of the Optical Society of America A - OPTICS IMAGE SCIENCE AND VISION (JOSA A) | 2.012 | 1.764 | 2.002 | 1.776 | 1.87 | 1.67 | 1.936 | 1.562 | 1.665 | 1.448 | 1.558 | 1.457 | 1.621 | 1.566 | 1.861 | 1.791 | 
| Journal of the Optical Society of America B - OPTICAL PHYSICS (JOSA B) | 2.649 | 2.119 | 2.002 | 2.03 | 2.181 | 2.087 | 2.097 | 2.185 | 2.21 | 1.806 | 1.97 | 1.731 | 1.843 | 2.048 | 2.284 | 2.18 | 
| Laser Physics Letters | 1.225 | 1.225 | 1.918 | 3.779 | 5.502 | 6.01 | 9.97 | 7.714 | 2.964 | 2.458 | 2.391 | 2.573 | 2.235 | 2.328 | 1.884 | |
| Langmuir | 3.295 | 3.705 | 3.902 | 4.009 | 4.097 | 3.898 | 4.269 | 4.186 | 4.187 | 4.384 | 4.457 | 3.993 | 3.833 | 3.789 | 3.683 | 3.557 | 
| Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics | 1.88 | 2.111 | 2.021 | 2.046 | 2.202 | 2.57 | 2.437 | 2.361 | 2.386 | 2.451 | 2.616 | 2.495 | 2.5 | 2.492 | 2.622 | 2.335 | 
| Macromolecules | 3.898 | 4.024 | 4.277 | 4.411 | 4.407 | 4.539 | 4.838 | 5.167 | 5.521 | 5.927 | 5.8 | 5.554 | 5.835 | 5.914 | 5.997 | 5.918 | 
| Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals | 0.529 | 0.468 | 0.478 | 0.554 | 0.537 | 0.451 | 0.543 | 0.58 | 0.53 | 0.491 | 0.493 | 0.532 | 0.571 | 0.633 | 0.559 | 0.512 | 
| Nano Letters | 8.449 | 9.847 | 9.96 | 9.627 | 10.371 | 9.991 | 12.219 | 13.198 | 13.025 | 12.94 | 13.592 | 13.779 | 12.712 | 12.08 | 12.279 | 11.238 | 
| Nanoscale | 4.109 | 5.914 | 6.233 | 6.739 | 7.394 | 7.76 | 7.367 | 7.233 | 6.97 | 6.895 | ||||||
| Nanotechnology | 3.322 | 2.993 | 3.037 | 3.31 | 3.446 | 3.137 | 3.652 | 3.979 | 3.842 | 3.672 | 3.821 | 3.573 | 3.44 | 3.404 | 3.399 | 3.551 | 
| Nature | 32.182 | 29.273 | 26.681 | 28.751 | 31.434 | 34.48 | 36.104 | 36.28 | 38.597 | 42.351 | 41.456 | 38.138 | 40.137 | 41.577 | 43.07 | 42.778 | 
| Nature Communications | 7.396 | 10.015 | 10.742 | 11.47 | 11.329 | 12.124 | 12.353 | 11.878 | 12.121 | |||||||
| Nature Materials | 13.531 | 15.941 | 19.194 | 19.782 | 23.132 | 29.504 | 29.92 | 32.841 | 35.749 | 36.425 | 36.503 | 38.891 | 39.737 | 39.235 | 38.887 | 38.663 | 
| Nature Nanotechnology | 14.917 | 20.571 | 26.309 | 30.324 | 27.27 | 31.17 | 33.265 | 34.048 | 35.267 | 38.986 | 37.49 | 33.407 | 31.538 | |||
| Nature Physics | 12.04 | 14.677 | 16.821 | 15.491 | 18.43 | 18.967 | 19.352 | 20.603 | 20.147 | 18.791 | 22.806 | 22.727 | 20.113 | 19.256 | ||
| Nature Photonics | 24.982 | 22.869 | 26.506 | 29.278 | 27.254 | 29.958 | 32.386 | 31.167 | 37.852 | 32.521 | 31.583 | 31.241 | ||||
| Optics Communications | 1.581 | 1.456 | 1.48 | 1.314 | 1.552 | 1.316 | 1.517 | 1.486 | 1.438 | 1.542 | 1.449 | 1.48 | 1.588 | 1.887 | 1.961 | 2.125 | 
| Optics Express | 3.797 | 3.764 | 4.009 | 3.709 | 3.88 | 3.278 | 3.753 | 3.587 | 3.546 | 3.525 | 3.488 | 3.148 | 3.307 | 3.356 | 3.561 | 3.669 | 
| Optics Letters | 3.882 | 3.599 | 3.598 | 3.711 | 3.772 | 3.059 | 3.318 | 3.399 | 3.385 | 3.179 | 3.292 | 3.04 | 3.416 | 3.589 | 3.866 | 3.714 | 
| Optical Materials | 1.339 | 1.162 | 1.709 | 1.519 | 1.714 | 1.728 | 1.679 | 2.023 | 1.918 | 2.075 | 1.981 | 2.183 | 2.238 | 2.32 | 2.687 | 2.779 | 
| Optical Materials Express | 2.616 | 2.923 | 2.844 | 2.657 | 2.591 | 2.566 | 2.673 | 3.064 | ||||||||
| Optical Review | 0.616 | 0.533 | 0.576 | 0.683 | 0.545 | 0.529 | 0.55 | 0.661 | 0.702 | 0.546 | 0.656 | 0.496 | 0.6 | 0.805 | 0.868 | 1.068 | 
| OSA Continuum | ||||||||||||||||
| Plasmonics | 2.765 | 3.488 | 3.723 | 3.544 | 2.989 | 2.425 | 2.738 | 2.238 | 2.146 | 2.139 | 2.366 | 2.926 | 2.335 | |||
| Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics | 2.076 | 2.519 | 2.892 | 3.343 | 4.064 | 4.116 | 3.454 | 3.573 | 3.829 | 4.198 | 4.493 | 4.449 | 4.123 | 3.906 | 3.567 | 3.43 | 
| Physical Review Letters | 7.218 | 7.489 | 7.072 | 6.944 | 7.18 | 7.328 | 7.622 | 7.37 | 7.943 | 7.728 | 7.512 | 7.645 | 8.462 | 8.839 | 9.227 | 8.385 | 
| Physical Review A - atomic, molecular, and optical physics | 2.902 | 2.997 | 3.047 | 2.893 | 2.908 | 2.866 | 2.861 | 2.878 | 3.042 | 2.991 | 2.808 | 2.765 | 2.925 | 2.909 | 2.907 | 2.777 | 
| Physical Review B - condensed matter and materials physics | 3.075 | 3.185 | 3.107 | 3.172 | 3.322 | 3.475 | 3.774 | 3.691 | 3.767 | 3.664 | 3.736 | 3.718 | 3.836 | 3.813 | 3.736 | 3.575 | 
| Physical Review C - nuclear physics | 3.125 | 3.61 | 3.327 | 3.302 | 3.124 | 3.477 | 3.416 | 3.308 | 3.715 | 3.881 | 3.733 | 3.146 | 3.82 | 3.304 | 3.132 | 2.988 | 
| Physical Review D - particle, fields, gravitation, and cosmology | 5.156 | 4.852 | 4.896 | 4.696 | 5.05 | 4.922 | 4.964 | 4.558 | 4.691 | 4.864 | 4.643 | 4.506 | 4.557 | 4.394 | 4.368 | 4.833 | 
| Physical Review E - statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics | 2.352 | 2.418 | 2.438 | 2.483 | 2.508 | 2.4 | 2.352 | 2.255 | 2.313 | 2.326 | 2.288 | 2.252 | 2.366 | 2.284 | 2.353 | 2.296 | 
| Polymer | 2.433 | 2.849 | 2.773 | 3.065 | 3.331 | 3.573 | 3.829 | 3.438 | 3.379 | 3.766 | 3.562 | 3.586 | 3.684 | 3.483 | 3.771 | 4.231 | 
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 10.452 | 10.231 | 9.643 | 9.598 | 9.38 | 9.432 | 9.771 | 9.681 | 9.737 | 9.809 | 9.674 | 9.423 | 9.661 | 9.504 | 9.58 | 9.412 | 
| Review of Scientific Instruments | 1.226 | 1.235 | 1.541 | 1.384 | 1.738 | 1.521 | 1.601 | 1.367 | 1.602 | 1.584 | 1.614 | 1.336 | 1.515 | 1.428 | 1.587 | 1.48 | 
| RSC Advances | 2.562 | 3.708 | 3.84 | 3.289 | 3.108 | 2.936 | 3.049 | 3.119 | ||||||||
| Science | 31.853 | 30.927 | 30.028 | 26.372 | 28.103 | 29.747 | 31.377 | 31.201 | 31.027 | 31.477 | 33.611 | 34.661 | 37.205 | 41.058 | 41.063 | 41.845 | 
| Science Advances | 11.511 | 12.804 | 13.116 | |||||||||||||
| Scientific Reports | 2.927 | 5.078 | 5.578 | 5.228 | 4.259 | 4.122 | 4.011 | 3.998 | ||||||||
| Small | 6.024 | 6.408 | 6.525 | 6.171 | 7.336 | 8.349 | 7.823 | 7.514 | 8.368 | 8.315 | 8.643 | 9.598 | 10.856 | 11.459 | ||
| Synthetic Metals | 1.278 | 1.32 | 1.685 | 1.788 | 1.962 | 1.901 | 1.871 | 1.829 | 2.109 | 2.222 | 2.252 | 2.299 | 2.435 | 2.526 | 2.87 | 3.286 | 
| Thin Solid Films | 1.647 | 1.569 | 1.666 | 1.693 | 1.884 | 1.727 | 1.935 | 1.89 | 1.604 | 1.867 | 1.759 | 1.761 | 1.879 | 1.939 | 1.888 | 2.03 | 
| Ultramicroscopy | 2.215 | 2.49 | 1.706 | 1.996 | 2.629 | 2.067 | 2.063 | 2.471 | 2.47 | 2.745 | 2.436 | 2.874 | 2.843 | 2.929 | 2.644 | 2.452 |