Journal of Biomedical Optics

Country

United States

Universities and research institutions in United States
Media Ranking in United States

Subject Area and Category

Engineering
- Biomedical Engineering

Materials Science
- Biomaterials
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

Physics and Astronomy
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Publisher

SPIE

H-Index

160

Publication type

Journals

ISSN

10833668, 15602281

Coverage

1996-2024

Information

Homepage

How to publish in this journal

jbo@spie.org

Scope

The Journal of Biomedical Optics (JBO) is an open access journal that publishes peer-reviewed papers on innovations in optical systems and techniques that will improve health care and lead to discoveries in biomedical research. Growth in the capabilities of biomedical optical technology has fueled new areas of contrast, resolution, and spectral capacity in imaging and sensing, which have enabled widespread applications throughout biology and medicine. Topics suitable for JBO include significant in-depth studies of: fundamentally new discoveries in biomedical optical devices for imaging or sensing using: optical spectroscopy, near infrared spectroscopy, photoacoustics, microscopy, optical coherence, tomography, fluorescence, phosphorescence, elastography, hyperspectral, using features unique to optics such as spatial, spectral, temporal, interference, polarization, or quantum nature; increasing knowledge of light-tissue interaction, through theoretical transport models such as Monte Carlo, diffusion, electromagnetic and empirical methods, and through physical methods to model light–tissue interactions such as tissue-simulating phantoms; computational advances in optical image and signal processing, and image reconstruction, including new methods in machine learning and artificial intelligence that improve insight into the utility, detection, or performance value; novel medical optical systems used in definitive animal or human studies or clinical trial testing that can impact the field by their design or the optical innovation, including discoveries and technical advances in optics emerging from mobile, remote, wearable, or implantable technologies that can improve health and wellness; discoveries in photonics, nanophotonics, plasmonics, biosensors, and optical reporters that have direct relevance to biomedical needs or utility;...etc.

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Quartiles

The set of journals have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles. Q1 (green) comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.

Category	Year	Quartile
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics	1999	Q1
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics	2000	Q1
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics	2001	Q2
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics	2002	Q2
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics	2003	Q1
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics	2004	Q1
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics	2005	Q1
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics	2006	Q1
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics	2007	Q1
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics	2008	Q1
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics	2009	Q1
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics	2010	Q1
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics	2011	Q1
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics	2012	Q1
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics	2013	Q1
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics	2014	Q1
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics	2015	Q1
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics	2016	Q1
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics	2017	Q1
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics	2018	Q1
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics	2019	Q1
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics	2020	Q1
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics	2021	Q1
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics	2022	Q1
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics	2023	Q1
Biomaterials	1999	Q1
Biomaterials	2000	Q1
Biomaterials	2001	Q1
Biomaterials	2002	Q1
Biomaterials	2003	Q1
Biomaterials	2004	Q1
Biomaterials	2005	Q1
Biomaterials	2006	Q1
Biomaterials	2007	Q1
Biomaterials	2008	Q1
Biomaterials	2009	Q1
Biomaterials	2010	Q1
Biomaterials	2011	Q1
Biomaterials	2012	Q1
Biomaterials	2013	Q1
Biomaterials	2014	Q1
Biomaterials	2015	Q1
Biomaterials	2016	Q1
Biomaterials	2017	Q2
Biomaterials	2018	Q2
Biomaterials	2019	Q1
Biomaterials	2020	Q2
Biomaterials	2021	Q2
Biomaterials	2022	Q2
Biomaterials	2023	Q2
Biomedical Engineering	1999	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2000	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2001	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2002	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2003	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2004	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2005	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2006	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2007	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2008	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2009	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2010	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2011	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2012	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2013	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2014	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2015	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2016	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2017	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2018	Q2
Biomedical Engineering	2019	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2020	Q2
Biomedical Engineering	2021	Q2
Biomedical Engineering	2022	Q2
Biomedical Engineering	2023	Q2
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials	1999	Q1
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials	2000	Q1
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials	2001	Q1
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials	2002	Q1
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials	2003	Q1
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials	2004	Q1
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials	2005	Q1
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials	2006	Q1
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials	2007	Q1
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials	2008	Q1
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials	2009	Q1
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials	2010	Q1
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials	2011	Q1
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials	2012	Q1
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials	2013	Q1
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials	2014	Q1
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials	2015	Q1
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials	2016	Q1
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials	2017	Q1
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials	2018	Q1
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials	2019	Q1
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials	2020	Q1
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials	2021	Q1
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials	2022	Q1
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials	2023	Q2

SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.

Year	SJR
1999	1.160
2000	1.706
2001	0.935
2002	0.956
2003	1.460
2004	1.463
2005	1.553
2006	1.128
2007	1.156
2008	1.340
2009	1.611
2010	1.363
2011	1.295
2012	1.292
2013	1.387
2014	1.324
2015	1.173
2016	0.997
2017	0.918
2018	0.868
2019	1.029
2020	0.920
2021	0.872
2022	0.824
2023	0.779

Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

Year	Documents
1999	55
2000	52
2001	60
2002	79
2003	80
2004	163
2005	254
2006	243
2007	272
2008	339
2009	324
2010	432
2011	476
2012	547
2013	526
2014	506
2015	468
2016	424
2017	393
2018	313
2019	237
2020	196
2021	163
2022	174
2023	170

Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per document	Year	Value
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	1999	1.581
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2000	1.743
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2001	2.571
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2002	2.795
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2003	3.699
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2004	4.085
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2005	4.979
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2006	3.938
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2007	3.781
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2008	3.505
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2009	3.719
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2010	3.729
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2011	4.036
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2012	3.537
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2013	3.460
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2014	3.460
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2015	3.236
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2016	3.130
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2017	2.820
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2018	2.812
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2019	3.033
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2020	3.211
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2021	3.623
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2022	3.623
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2023	3.482
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	1999	1.581
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2000	1.551
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2001	2.525
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2002	2.988
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2003	3.916
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2004	4.155
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2005	4.981
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2006	3.598
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2007	3.633
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2008	3.397
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2009	3.718
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2010	3.640
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2011	3.834
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2012	3.565
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2013	3.329
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2014	3.374
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2015	3.179
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2016	3.090
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2017	2.787
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2018	2.667
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2019	3.133
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2020	3.191
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2021	3.694
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2022	3.799
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2023	3.373
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	1999	1.155
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2000	1.500
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2001	2.486
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2002	3.018
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2003	3.993
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2004	4.006
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2005	4.560
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2006	3.317
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2007	3.292
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2008	3.287
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2009	3.534
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2010	3.391
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2011	3.643
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2012	3.337
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2013	3.136
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2014	3.294
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2015	3.140
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2016	2.952
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2017	2.520
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2018	2.769
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2019	3.045
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2020	3.076
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2021	3.834
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2022	3.515
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2023	3.128

Total Cites

Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

Cites	Year	Value
Self Cites	1999	23
Self Cites	2000	17
Self Cites	2001	18
Self Cites	2002	20
Self Cites	2003	29
Self Cites	2004	71
Self Cites	2005	177
Self Cites	2006	225
Self Cites	2007	266
Self Cites	2008	345
Self Cites	2009	347
Self Cites	2010	448
Self Cites	2011	485
Self Cites	2012	646
Self Cites	2013	639
Self Cites	2014	612
Self Cites	2015	526
Self Cites	2016	458
Self Cites	2017	381
Self Cites	2018	266
Self Cites	2019	244
Self Cites	2020	143
Self Cites	2021	133
Self Cites	2022	151
Self Cites	2023	154
Total Cites	1999	245
Total Cites	2000	245
Total Cites	2001	404
Total Cites	2002	499
Total Cites	2003	748
Total Cites	2004	910
Total Cites	2005	1604
Total Cites	2006	1788
Total Cites	2007	2398
Total Cites	2008	2612
Total Cites	2009	3175
Total Cites	2010	3403
Total Cites	2011	4198
Total Cites	2012	4392
Total Cites	2013	4844
Total Cites	2014	5227
Total Cites	2015	5019
Total Cites	2016	4635
Total Cites	2017	3896
Total Cites	2018	3427
Total Cites	2019	3540
Total Cites	2020	3009
Total Cites	2021	2756
Total Cites	2022	2264
Total Cites	2023	1798

External Cites per Doc

Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

Cites	Year	Value
External Cites per document	1999	1.432
External Cites per document	2000	1.443
External Cites per document	2001	2.413
External Cites per document	2002	2.868
External Cites per document	2003	3.764
External Cites per document	2004	3.831
External Cites per document	2005	4.432
External Cites per document	2006	3.145
External Cites per document	2007	3.230
External Cites per document	2008	2.948
External Cites per document	2009	3.311
External Cites per document	2010	3.160
External Cites per document	2011	3.391
External Cites per document	2012	3.041
External Cites per document	2013	2.890
External Cites per document	2014	2.979
External Cites per document	2015	2.845
External Cites per document	2016	2.785
External Cites per document	2017	2.514
External Cites per document	2018	2.460
External Cites per document	2019	2.917
External Cites per document	2020	3.039
External Cites per document	2021	3.516
External Cites per document	2022	3.545
External Cites per document	2023	3.084
Cites per document	1999	1.581
Cites per document	2000	1.551
Cites per document	2001	2.525
Cites per document	2002	2.988
Cites per document	2003	3.916
Cites per document	2004	4.155
Cites per document	2005	4.981
Cites per document	2006	3.598
Cites per document	2007	3.633
Cites per document	2008	3.397
Cites per document	2009	3.718
Cites per document	2010	3.640
Cites per document	2011	3.834
Cites per document	2012	3.565
Cites per document	2013	3.329
Cites per document	2014	3.374
Cites per document	2015	3.179
Cites per document	2016	3.090
Cites per document	2017	2.787
Cites per document	2018	2.667
Cites per document	2019	3.133
Cites per document	2020	3.191
Cites per document	2021	3.694
Cites per document	2022	3.799
Cites per document	2023	3.373

% International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.

Year	International Collaboration
1999	10.91
2000	15.38
2001	5.00
2002	13.92
2003	22.50
2004	19.63
2005	19.69
2006	14.81
2007	21.69
2008	20.06
2009	18.83
2010	20.37
2011	20.80
2012	20.84
2013	21.29
2014	25.30
2015	20.94
2016	28.77
2017	26.72
2018	27.80
2019	26.16
2020	23.98
2021	23.93
2022	26.44
2023	25.29

Citable documents

Non-citable documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.

Documents	Year	Value
Non-citable documents	1999	0
Non-citable documents	2000	0
Non-citable documents	2001	1
Non-citable documents	2002	1
Non-citable documents	2003	3
Non-citable documents	2004	4
Non-citable documents	2005	14
Non-citable documents	2006	18
Non-citable documents	2007	19
Non-citable documents	2008	12
Non-citable documents	2009	11
Non-citable documents	2010	10
Non-citable documents	2011	15
Non-citable documents	2012	16
Non-citable documents	2013	22
Non-citable documents	2014	19
Non-citable documents	2015	19
Non-citable documents	2016	16
Non-citable documents	2017	19
Non-citable documents	2018	19
Non-citable documents	2019	18
Non-citable documents	2020	17
Non-citable documents	2021	17
Non-citable documents	2022	16
Non-citable documents	2023	10
Citable documents	1999	155
Citable documents	2000	158
Citable documents	2001	159
Citable documents	2002	166
Citable documents	2003	188
Citable documents	2004	215
Citable documents	2005	308
Citable documents	2006	479
Citable documents	2007	641
Citable documents	2008	757
Citable documents	2009	843
Citable documents	2010	925
Citable documents	2011	1080
Citable documents	2012	1216
Citable documents	2013	1433
Citable documents	2014	1530
Citable documents	2015	1560
Citable documents	2016	1484
Citable documents	2017	1379
Citable documents	2018	1266
Citable documents	2019	1112
Citable documents	2020	926
Citable documents	2021	729
Citable documents	2022	580
Citable documents	2023	523

Cited documents

Uncited documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

Documents	Year	Value
Uncited documents	1999	69
Uncited documents	2000	63
Uncited documents	2001	37
Uncited documents	2002	43
Uncited documents	2003	36
Uncited documents	2004	46
Uncited documents	2005	52
Uncited documents	2006	111
Uncited documents	2007	135
Uncited documents	2008	146
Uncited documents	2009	159
Uncited documents	2010	151
Uncited documents	2011	180
Uncited documents	2012	195
Uncited documents	2013	267
Uncited documents	2014	267
Uncited documents	2015	304
Uncited documents	2016	321
Uncited documents	2017	336
Uncited documents	2018	293
Uncited documents	2019	256
Uncited documents	2020	183
Uncited documents	2021	138
Uncited documents	2022	110
Uncited documents	2023	111
Cited documents	1999	86
Cited documents	2000	95
Cited documents	2001	123
Cited documents	2002	124
Cited documents	2003	155
Cited documents	2004	173
Cited documents	2005	270
Cited documents	2006	386
Cited documents	2007	525
Cited documents	2008	623
Cited documents	2009	695
Cited documents	2010	784
Cited documents	2011	915
Cited documents	2012	1037
Cited documents	2013	1188
Cited documents	2014	1282
Cited documents	2015	1275
Cited documents	2016	1179
Cited documents	2017	1062
Cited documents	2018	992
Cited documents	2019	874
Cited documents	2020	760
Cited documents	2021	608
Cited documents	2022	486
Cited documents	2023	422