100 Most Cited Articles JOSA
To highlight some of the seminal research published in JOSA, we asked Thomson Reuters, an authoritative aggregator of journal articles, to compile a list of the most-cited articles from JOSA.
*As of Summer 2015
See also JOSA A | JOSA B
1. Fourier-transform method of fringe-pattern analysis for computer-based topography and interferometry
Mitsuo Takeda, Hideki Ina, and Seiji Kobayashi
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 72(1) 156-160 (1982)
TOTAL CITES: 2114
2. Geometrical Theory of Diffraction*
Joseph B. Keller
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 52(2) 116-130 (1962)
TOTAL CITES: 1408
3. Bayesian-Based Iterative Method of Image Restoration*
William Hadley Richardson
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 62(1) 55-59 (1972)
TOTAL CITES: 1356
4. New Contributions to the Optics of Intensely Light-Scattering Materials. Part I
Paul Kubelka
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 38(5) 448-457 (1948)
TOTAL CITES: 1304
5. Optics in Stratified and Anisotropic Media: 4×4-Matrix Formulation
Dwight W. Berreman
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 62(4) 502-510 (1972)
TOTAL CITES: 1274
6. Zernike polynomials and atmospheric turbulence*
Robert J. Noll
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 66(3) 207-211 (1976)
TOTAL CITES: 1197
7. A New Calculus for the Treatment of Optical SystemsI. Description and Discussion of the Calculus
R. Clark Jones
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 31(7) 488-493 (1941)
TOTAL CITES: 1061
8. Rigorous coupled-wave analysis of planar-grating diffraction
M. G. Moharam and T. K. Gaylord
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 71(7) 811-818 (1981)
TOTAL CITES: 1058
9. Lightness and Retinex Theory
Edwin H. Land and John J. McCann
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 61(1) 1-11 (1971)
TOTAL CITES: 1056
10. Measurement of the Roughness of the Sea Surface from Photographs of the Sun’s Glitter
Charles Cox and Walter Munk
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 44(11) 838-850 (1954)
TOTAL CITES: 1018
11. Interspecimen Comparison of the Refractive Index of Fused Silica*,†
I. H. Malitson
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 55(10) 1205-1209 (1965)
TOTAL CITES: 998
12. Optical Resolution Through a Randomly Inhomogeneous Medium for Very Long and Very Short Exposures
D. L. Fried
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 56(10) 1372-1379 (1966)
TOTAL CITES: 950
13. Long Optical Paths of Large Aperture
John U. White
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 32(5) 285-288 (1942)
TOTAL CITES: 919
14. Approximate relativistic corrections to atomic radial wave functions*
Robert D. Cowan and Donald C. Griffin
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 66(10) 1010-1014 (1976)
TOTAL CITES: 912
15. Image analysis via the general theory of moments*
Michael Reed Teague
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 70(8) 920-930 (1980)
TOTAL CITES: 904
16. Electromagnetic propagation in periodic stratified media. I. General theory*
Pochi Yeh, Amnon Yariv, and Chi-Shain Hong
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 67(4) 423-438 (1977)
TOTAL CITES: 810
17. Reconstructed Wavefronts and Communication Theory*
Emmett N. Leith and Juris Upatnieks
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 52(10) 1123-1130 (1962)
TOTAL CITES: 799
18. Some fundamental properties of speckle*
J. W. Goodman
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 66(11) 1145-1150 (1976)
TOTAL CITES: 718
19. Relation Between Surface Roughness and Specular Reflectance at Normal Incidence
H. E. Bennett and J. O. Porteus
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 51(2) 123-129 (1961)
TOTAL CITES: 696
20. Formation of Optical Images by X-Rays
Paul Kirkpatrick and A. V. Baez
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 38(9) 766-774 (1948)
TOTAL CITES: 694
21. Degenerate four-wave mixing in semiconductor-doped glasses
R. K. Jain and R. C. Lind
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 73(5) 647-653 (1983)
TOTAL CITES: 689
22. Contrast masking in human vision
Gordon E. Legge and John M. Foley
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 70(12) 1458-1471 (1980)
TOTAL CITES: 685
23. Diffraction analysis of dielectric surface-relief gratings
M. G. Moharam and T. K. Gaylord
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 72(10) 1385-1392 (1982)
TOTAL CITES: 654
24. Lens-System Diffraction Integral Written in Terms of Matrix Optics*
Stuart A. Collins
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 60(9) 1168-1177 (1970)
TOTAL CITES: 644
25. Theory for Off-Specular Reflection From Roughened Surfaces*
K. E. Torrance and E. M. Sparrow
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 57(9) 1105-1114 (1967)
TOTAL CITES: 637
26. Theory of Prism–Film Coupler and Thin-Film Light Guides
P. K. Tien and R. Ulrich
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 60(10) 1325-1337 (1970)
TOTAL CITES: 600
27. Mathematical description of the responses of simple cortical cells*
S. Marĉelja
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 70(11) 1297-1300 (1980)
TOTAL CITES: 600
28. The Sensitivity Performance of the Human Eye on an Absolute Scale*
Albert Rose
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 38(2) 196-208 (1948)
TOTAL CITES: 588
29. Wavefront Reconstruction with Diffused Illumination and Three-Dimensional Objects*
Emmett N. Leith and Juris Upatnieks
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 54(11) 1295-1301 (1964)
TOTAL CITES: 574
30. Visual Sensitivities to Color Differences in Daylight*
David L. MacAdam
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 32(5) 247-274 (1942)
TOTAL CITES: 569
31. Chromaticity diagram showing cone excitation by stimuli of equal luminance
Donald I. A. MacLeod and Robert M. Boynton
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 69(8) 1183-1186 (1979)
TOTAL CITES: 531
Wilford N. Hansen
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 58(3) 380-390 (1968)
TOTAL CITES: 530
33. Spatial and Temporal Contrast-Sensitivity Functions of the Visual System
J. G. Robson
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 56(8) 1141-1142 (1966)
TOTAL CITES: 528
34. Spectra-Structure Correlations in the Infra-Red Region
N. B. Colthup
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 40(6) 397-400 (1950)
TOTAL CITES: 524
35. Contrast Thresholds of the Human Eye
H. Richard Blackwell
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 36(11) 624-643 (1946)
TOTAL CITES: 488
36. Deterministic phase retrieval: a Green’s function solution
Michael Reed Teague
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 73(11) 1434-1441 (1983)
TOTAL CITES: 488
Pochi Yeh, Amnon Yariv, and Emanuel Marom
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 68(9) 1196-1201 (1978)
TOTAL CITES: 480
38. The Axicon: A New Type of Optical Element
John H. McLeod
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 44(8) 592-597 (1954)
TOTAL CITES: 477
39. Statistics of a Geometric Representation of Wavefront Distortion
D. L. Fried
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 55(11) 1427-1435 (1965)
TOTAL CITES: 450
40. Interferometric Vibration Analysis by Wavefront Reconstruction
Robert L. Powell and Karl A. Stetson
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 55(12) 1593-1598 (1965)
TOTAL CITES: 450
U. Fano
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 31(3) 213-222 (1941)
TOTAL CITES: 446
42. Restoring with Maximum Likelihood and Maximum Entropy*
B. Roy Frieden
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 62(4) 511-518 (1972)
TOTAL CITES: 441
43. Final Report of the O.S.A. Subcommittee on the Spacing of the Munsell Colors*
Sidney M. Newhall, Dorothy Nickerson, and Deane B. Judd
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 33(7) 385-418 (1943)
TOTAL CITES: 428
45. Photoelectric Light-Scattering Photometer for Determining High Molecular Weights*
B. A. Brice, M. Halwer, and R. Speiser
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 40(11) 768-778 (1950)
TOTAL CITES: 424
46. Total Quantum Flux of Isotropic Sources*
J. Woodland Hastings and Gregorio Weber
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 53(12) 1410-1415 (1963)
TOTAL CITES: 421
47. The time-dependent physical spectrum of light*
J. H. Eberly and K. Wódkiewicz
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 67(9) 1252-1261 (1977)
TOTAL CITES: 411
48. Generation of time-reversed wave fronts by nonlinear refraction*
R. W. Hellwarth
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 67(1) 1-3 (1977)
TOTAL CITES: 403
49. Motion and vision. II. Stabilized spatio-temporal threshold surface
D. H. Kelly
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 69(10) 1340-1349 (1979)
TOTAL CITES: 403
50. A New Calculus for the Treatment of Optical Systems. VII. Properties of the N-Matrices
R. Clark Jones
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 38(8) 671-685 (1948)
TOTAL CITES: 402
51. Wave-front estimation from wave-front slope measurements
W.H. Southwell
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 70(8) 998-1006 (1980)
TOTAL CITES: 401
52. Spectral Distribution of Typical Daylight as a Function of Correlated Color Temperature
Deane B. Judd, David L. MacAdam, Günter Wyszecki, H. W. Budde, H. R. Condit, S. T. Henderson, and J. L. Simonds
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 54(8) 1031-1040 (1964)
TOTAL CITES: 397
53. Optical and Photoelectric Analog of the Eye
Otto H. Schade
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(9) 721-739 (1956)
TOTAL CITES: 396
54. Analysis of Response Patterns of LGN Cells*
Russell L. De Valois, Israel Abramov, and Gerald H. Jacobs
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 56(7) 966-977 (1966)
TOTAL CITES: 394
55. Cylindrical Dielectric Waveguide Modes*
E. Snitzer
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 51(5) 491-498 (1961)
TOTAL CITES: 391
56. Magnification and Third-Order Aberrations in Holography*
Reinhard W. Meier
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 55(8) 987-992 (1965)
TOTAL CITES: 388
57. Theoretical Calculation of Atomic Spectra Using Digital Computers*
Robert D. Cowan
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 58(6) 808-818 (1968)
TOTAL CITES: 388
58. Effects of Components of Displacement-Step Stimuli Upon Latency for Saccadic Eye Movement
M. G. Saslow
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 57(8) 1024-1029 (1967)
TOTAL CITES: 387
59. Spatial Modulation Transfer in the Human Eye
Floris L. Van Nes and Maarten A. Bouman
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 57(3) 401-406 (1967)
TOTAL CITES: 386
60. Optical constants from the far infrared to the x-ray region: Mg, Al, Cu, Ag, Au, Bi, C, and Al2O3
H.-J. Hagemann, W. Gudat, and C. Kunz
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 65(6) 742-744 (1975)
TOTAL CITES: 382
61. The Dispersion of Standard Air*
Bengt Edlén
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 43(5) 339-344 (1953)
TOTAL CITES: 382
62. Electromagnetic propagation in birefringent layered media
Pochi Yeh
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 69(5) 742-756 (1979)
TOTAL CITES: 381
63. Visual Responses to Time-Dependent Stimuli.* I. Amplitude Sensitivity Measurements†
D. H. Kelly
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 51(4) 422-429 (1961)
TOTAL CITES: 377
64. Spatial-Frequency Channels in Human Vision*
Murray B. Sachs, Jacob Nachmias, and John G. Robson
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 61(9) 1176-1186 (1971)
TOTAL CITES: 376
65. Piezo-Optical Birefringence Modulators: New Use for a Long-Known Effect
James C. Kemp
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 59(8) 950-954 (1969)
TOTAL CITES: 368
66. The Disappearance of Steadily Fixated Visual Test Objects*
Lorrin A. Riggs, Floyd Ratliff, Janet C. Cornsweet, and Tom N. Cornsweet
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 43(6) 495-501 (1953)
TOTAL CITES: 368
67. The 1s-3p Kβ-like x-ray spectrum of highly ionized iron
M. Klapisch, J. L. Schwob, B. S. Fraenkel, and J. Oreg
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 67(2) 148-155 (1977)
TOTAL CITES: 362
68. The Farnsworth-Munsell 100-Hue and Dichotomous Tests for Color Vision*
Dean Farnsworth
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 33(10) 568-578 (1943)
TOTAL CITES: 359
69. Transmission Filters for the Ultraviolet*
M. Kasha
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 38(11) 929-934 (1948)
TOTAL CITES: 354
70. Wavefront Reconstruction with Continuous-Tone Objects*
Emmett N. Leith and Juris Upatnieks
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 53(12) 1377-1381 (1963)
TOTAL CITES: 352
71. The Optical Constants of Silver, Gold, Copper, and Aluminum. I. The Absorption Coefficient k
L. G. Schulz
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 44(5) 357-362 (1954)
TOTAL CITES: 349
72. Theory of Fresnel Images. I. Plane Periodic Objects in Monochromatic Light*
John T. Winthrop and C. R. Worthington
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 55(4) 373-381 (1965)
TOTAL CITES: 344
73. Coupled-Mode Theory for Optical Fibers
Allan W. Snyder
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 62(11) 1267-1277 (1972)
TOTAL CITES: 341
Emil Wolf
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 72(3) 343-351 (1982)
TOTAL CITES: 341
75. Curvature loss formula for optical fibers
Dietrich Marcuse
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 66(3) 216-220 (1976)
TOTAL CITES: 338
76. Modulation Transfer Function Associated with Image Transmission through Turbulent Media
R. E. Hufnagel and N. R. Stanley
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 54(1) 52-61 (1964)
TOTAL CITES: 337
77. Electron Binding Energies in Free Atoms*
Wolfgang Lotz
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 60(2) 206-210 (1970)
TOTAL CITES: 335
78. Optical properties of water in the near infrared*
Kent F. Palmer and Dudley Williams
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 64(8) 1107-1110 (1974)
TOTAL CITES: 332
79. Multicoated gratings: a differential formalism applicable in the entire optical region
J. Chandezon, M. T. Dupuis, G. Cornet, and D. Maystre
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 72(7) 839-846 (1982)
TOTAL CITES: 332
H. de Lange Dzn
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 48(11) 777-784 (1958)
TOTAL CITES: 329
P. E. King-Smith and D. Carden
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 66(7) 709-717 (1976)
TOTAL CITES: 325
82. The Near Infrared Absorption Spectrum of Liquid Water
Joseph A. Curcio and Charles C. Petty
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 41(5) 302-304 (1951)
TOTAL CITES: 325
83. Absorption Coefficients of Water Vapor in the Vacuum Ultraviolet
K. Watanabe and Murray Zelikoff
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 43(9) 753-755 (1953)
TOTAL CITES: 318
84. Visual Resolution and Contour Interaction*
Merton C. Flom, Frank W. Weymouth, and Daniel Kahneman
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 53(9) 1026-1032 (1963)
TOTAL CITES: 315
85. The Structure of Evaporated Metal Films and Their Optical Properties
R. S. Sennett and G. D. Scott
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 40(4) 203-211 (1950)
TOTAL CITES: 315
86. Absorption Coefficient of Ozone in the Ultraviolet and Visible Regions
Edward C. Y. Inn and Yoshio Tanaka
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 43(10) 870-873 (1953)
TOTAL CITES: 314
87. Least-square fitting a wave-front distortion estimate to an array of phase-difference measurements
David L. Fried
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 67(3) 370-375 (1977)
TOTAL CITES: 312
88. Tandem-Scanning Reflected-Light Microscope*
Mojmír Petráň, Milan Hadravský, M. David Egger, and Robert Galambos
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 58(5) 661-664 (1968)
TOTAL CITES: 308
90. Wigner distribution function and its application to first-order optics
M. J. Bastiaans
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 69(12) 1710-1716 (1979)
TOTAL CITES: 305
91. The Luminosity of Spectrometers with Prisms, Gratings, or Fabry-Perot Etalons
Pierre Jacquinot
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 44(10) 761-765 (1954)
TOTAL CITES: 299
92. Energy Level and Line Tables for One-Electron Atomic Spectra*
J. D. Garcia and J. E. Mack
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 55(6) 654-685 (1965)
TOTAL CITES: 298
93. Infrared Spectra of Monolayers on Metal Mirrors
S. A. Francis and A. H. Ellison
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 49(2) 131-138 (1959)
TOTAL CITES: 297
94. Optical Constants of Silver, Gold, Copper, and Aluminum. II. The Index of Refraction n
L. G. Schulz and F. R. Tangherlini
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 44(5) 362-368 (1954)
TOTAL CITES: 295
95. Retinal Noise and Absolute Threshold
H. B. Barlow
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 46(8) 634-639 (1956)
TOTAL CITES: 293
Paul Kubelka
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 44(4) 330-335 (1954)
TOTAL CITES: 292
97. Asymmetric self-defocusing of an optical beam from the photorefractive effect
Jack Feinberg
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 72(1) 46-51 (1982)
TOTAL CITES: 289
98. Spatial-Frequency Masking in Vision: Critical Bands and Spread of Masking*
Charles F. Stromeyer and Bela Julesz
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 62(10) 1221-1232 (1972)
TOTAL CITES: 288
Rudolf Penndorf
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 47(2) 176-182 (1957)
TOTAL CITES: 286
100. Determination of the Properties of Films on Silicon by the Method of Ellipsometry
R. J. Archer
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 52(9) 970-977 (1962)
TOTAL CITES: 285