Light Advanced Manufacturing

Light Advanced Manufacturing is published by Light Publishing Group and is classed under Engineering in the CAS Journal Ranking. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Photonic and Optical Devices, Digital Holography and Microscopy and Laser Material Processing Techniques, together about 22.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Biomedical Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Share: Aims and scopeLight: Advanced Manufacturing LAM is a new, highly selective, open-access, and free of charge international sister journal of the Nature Journal Light: Science & Applications. The journal is aimed to publish innovative research in all modern areas of preferred light-based manufacturing, including fundamental and applied research as well as industrial innovations.LAM is published by the Light Publishing Group and sponsored by the Ji hua Laboratory (Guangdong Province, Foshan City) in close cooperation with the CIOMP (Changchun, http://english.ciomp.cas.cn/).Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:- Metrology and Standards- Detection and Sensing- Characterization and In-Situ Measurement- Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing - Extreme Manufacturing and Metrology- Micro/Nano Manufacturing Technologies- Laser Processing and Manufacturing- Flexible Optoelectronics Technologies- Photonic Integration Technologies- AI-Assisted Photonics- Terahertz and Infrared Technologies- Space Optics Technologies- Light Field Display and Manipulation Technologies- Mesoscopic Imaging- Atomic-Scale ManufacturingAuthor benefits- Rigorous and timely peer review process- Professional copyediting and typesetting- Diamond Open Access: free of charge publishing- Wide exposure to a large global audience- ScholarOne Manuscript tracking system- Intended future referencing on the Web of Science platform (Clarivate Analytics)- Online publication 2 weeks after acceptance- Free inclusion of supplementary material (multimedia content)- Awarding of the most influential papers at the Annual Light Conference- Highlighting new business and supporting young entrepreneurs in dissemination of their productsIn addition to the cutting-edge research, LAM offers a comprehensive view of the latest technological advances in light-based industries covering a wide range of design, fabrication, testing, and application of innovative products, intending to bridge the gaps that often exist in moving technologies to market. Share:

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Physics and Astronomy-Instrumentation

Editor-in-chief Jianlin CaoPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 23 in mainland China (about 37%); most named Mainland China 23, Germany 9, United States 8, United Kingdom 7, India 3 (62 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

Google Scholar, CNKI, CSCD, CSTPCDPublisher website

As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.

Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.

Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

14LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

2.13LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

2.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

40OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

141OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

4.23OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

2.9%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

100%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

73LetPub · 2026-09-13

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Average review time (community reports)

about 22 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 22 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Publisher

Light Publishing Group

Country or region

China

Language

English

ISSN

2689-9620

Electronic ISSN

2831-4093

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Author guidelines ↗LetPub
• Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗LetPub
• Editorial board ↗LetPub
• Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ