Optica Publishing Group publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed articles in its portfolio of journals, which serve the full breadth of the optics and photonics community.
Biomedical Optics Express (BOEx) is Optica Publishing Group's principal outlet for serving the biomedical optics community with peer-reviewed papers related to optics, photonics and optical imaging in biomedicine. BOEx offers rapid time-to-publication, an interactive online interface and open access.
The journal's scope encompasses fundamental research, technology development, biomedical studies and clinical applications. BOEx focuses on the leading edge topics in the field, including:
- Tissue optics and spectroscopy
- Novel microscopies
- Optical coherence tomography
- Diffuse and fluorescence tomography
- Photoacoustic and multimodal imaging
- Molecular imaging and therapies
- Nanophotonic biosensing
- Optical biophysics/photobiology
- Microfluidic optical devices
- Vision research
BOEx considers original research articles, feature issue contributions, invited reviews, and comments on published articles.
Submission Information
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Authors benefit from:
- Rapid review, from submission to publication averaging less than 77 days and acceptance to online publication within 7 days.
- Affiliation with a leading international optics society that publishes the most-cited journals in optics.
- Content distributed broadly through major abstract/index services such as Web of Science, Google Scholar, and PubMed.
- PubMed Central deposit of all BOEx articles following publication. BOEx articles assigned both PubMed and PubMed Central IDs and are fully searchable in both systems.
- Visibility within our platform and Optics ImageBank searchable graphics repository.
Please see the Author Resource Center page for instructions to prepare and submit a manuscript.
SubmitKey Journal Metrics
Impact Factor: 3.4*
Immediacy Index: 0.8*
Journal Citation Indicator: .98*
Google Scholar h5-index: 58†
Median Time to First Decision: 26 days
Median Time to Publication: 82 days
*Source: 2023 Journal Citation Reports® (Clarivate, 2023).
†2023 Google Scholar Optics & Photonics Top Publications.
For more information on Journal metrics, click here.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Ruikang (Ricky) Wang
University of Washington, USA
Deputy Editor
Sina Farsiu,
Duke University, USA
Advisory Editors
Gregory W. Faris, SRI International, USA (Founding Deputy Editor)
James Fujimoto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Adam Gibson, University College London, UK (past Deputy Editor)
Min Gu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Stefan Hell, Max-Planck-Inst Biophysikalische Chemie, Germany
Christoph Hitzenberger, Medizinische Universität Wien, Austria (past Editor-in-Chief)
Joseph A. Izatt, Duke University, USA (Founding Editor-in-Chief)
Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum, Rice University, USA
Eva M. Sevick-Muraca, UT Health Science Center at Houston, USA
Alfred Vogel, University of Lübeck, Germany
David Williams, University of Rochester, USA
Arjun Yodh, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Associate Editors
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Kamran Avanaki University of Illinois at Chicago, USA |
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Bernhard Baumann |
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Kostadinka Bizheva University of Waterloo, Canada |
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Audrey Bowden Vanderbilt University, USA |
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Xueli Chen Xidian University, China |
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Regine Choe University of Rochester, USA |
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Christopher Dunsby Imperial College London, UK |
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Adam Eggebrecht Washington University School of Medicine, USA |
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Kate Grieve Quinze Vingts National Ophthalmology Hospital, France |
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Daniel Hammer Food and Drug Administration, USA |
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Roarke Horstmeyer Duke University, USA |
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Yali Jia Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), USA |
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Brendan Kennedy The University of Western Australia, Australia |
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Peter Kner University of Georgia, USA |
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Santosh Kumar Liaocheng University, China |
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Peng Li Zhejiang University, China |
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Jonathan T.C. Liu University of Washington, USA |
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Yang Liu University of Pittsburgh, USA |
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Linda Lundström Royal Institute of Technology/KTH, Sweden |
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Shuichi Makita University of Tsukuba, Japan |
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Sumeet Mahajan University of Southampton, UK |
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Igor Meglinski Aston University, UK |
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Thomas O'Sullivan University of Notre Dame, USA |
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Amy Oldenburg University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA |
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Manojit Pramanik Iowa State University, USA |
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Junle Qu Shenzhen University, China |
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Reza Rasti University of Isfahan, Iran |
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Ramkumar Sabesan University of Washington, USA |
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Marinko Sarunic Simon Fraser University, Canada |
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Meixiao Shen Wenzhou Medical University, China |
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Nicholas Smith Osaka University, Japan |
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Juan Tabernero Universidad de Murcia, Spain |
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Daniele Tosi Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan |
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Vincent Wallace University of Western Australia, Australia |
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Jun Xia University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA |
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Xincheng Yao University of Illinois at Chicago, USA |
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Filiz Yesilkoy University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA |
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Guoan Zheng University of Connecticut, USA |
Staff
| Editorial and Production | Phone | |
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| Nicole Williams-Jones, Journal Coordinator | boemss@optica.org | 202-416-1969 |
| Feature proposals | dmcdonold@optica.org | |
| Sarah J. Walker, Managing Editor | swalker@optica.org | 202-416-1482 |
| Article Processing Charges | billing@optica.org | |
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General Information |
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| Copyright Permission Requests | copyright@optica.org | |
| Online Journal Technical Support | elec@optica.org | |
| Elizabeth Nolan, Chief Publishing Officer | ||
| Kelly Cohen, Sr. Publisher | ||
| M. Scott Dineen, Senior Director, Publishing, Production & Technology | ||
| Jennifer Mayfield, Deputy Senior Director, Electronic Publications | ||
| Timothy Fincham, Associate Director, Production & Technology | ||
| Dan McDonold, Editorial Director | ||
Special Collections
Biomedical Optics Express celebrated its 10th Anniversary in 2020. View the top-cited articles across ten key areas of interest.
The Biomedical Optics Express Best-Paper Prize recognizes one outstanding paper published within the three previous years. Learn more and view all Prize winners.