10th Anniversary of Applied Sciences: Invited Papers in "Optics and Lasers" Section

Dear Colleagues, 

Applied Sciences is going to reach a remarkable milestone by publishing its 10th volume, and in celebration of this special occasion, we have taken the initiative to launch a Special Issue called “10th Anniversary of Applied Sciences: Invited Papers in ‘Optics and Lasers’ Section”.

In 2014, when we received our first impact factor for Applied Sciences, we published 35 manuscripts from 53 submissions, i.e., the acceptance rate was roughly 66%. However, we have now significantly improved the review quality; hence, in 2018, we published 2703 manuscripts from 9757 submissions, keeping the acceptance rate below 28%. This reasonably gave us an impact factor jump from 1.484 in 2014 to 2.217 in 2018. We have also reduced the manuscript turnaround time; presently, the median publication time is only 37 days, which will be further reduced in the coming days, and we hope to increase the impact factor to above 3.0 by 2019.

Among all sections of Applied Sciences, ‘Optics and Lasers’ section is doing extremely well, it appears, with 1033 articles published so far, along with 272 Special Issues. On this occasion, we would like to thank our all Editorial Board Members, Managing Editors, Reviewers, and Authors for their great contributions and continuous support. Please help us to celebrate our 10th anniversary and submit your review article to the Anniversary Edition.

We would like to invite you to contribute a comprehensive review article or an original research paper, for peer-review and possible publication.

Prof. Dr. Totaro Imasaka
Prof. Dr. Takayoshi Kobayashi
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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