Reviewer recognition and editor’s note 2019
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Andreas Thoss
Andreas Thoss studied physics and received the diploma and PhD degrees from the Free University Berlin in 1995 and 2003, respectively. For both degrees, he did research at the Max-Born-Institute Berlin on the field of ultra-short and ultra-intense laser pulses. From 1996 to 1999, he worked as a development engineer for medical laser systems with Aesculap-Meditec (now ZEISS Meditec) in Jena. In 2003 he joined the international publishing house John Wiley & Sons. There, he gathered comprehensive experience as publisher, editor and commissioning editor in the areas of book, journal and online publishing. Among others, he co-founded the journals
Laser & Photonics Reviews (2007) and theJournal of Biophotonics (2008). Since its foundation in 2010 he manages THOSS Media, where he co-foundedAdvanced Optical Technologies .Michael Pfeffer graduated in 1998 at the Institute of Applied Optics at EPFL (Switzerland), obtaining his PhD for a thesis in the field of Optical Nanotechnology. In 2002, after several years working in the Swiss optics industry, he was appointed Full Professor of Optics and Engineering in the Department of Physical Engineering of Hochschule Ravensburg-Weingarten, University of Applied Sciences (Germany). Dr. Pfeffer teaches and researches in the field of optics, physical instrument design and nanotechnology. Currently, he serves as Vice-Rector for Research and International Relations. In 2005, the General Membership Meeting elected him to the Executive Board and CEO for the DGaO-Annual Meeting 2006. From 2008 to 2012 he served as President of the German Society of applied Optics (DGaO). In 2012 he was elected as Secretary of the Board of the European Optical Society (EOS). Dr. Pfeffer is member of the German Physical Society (DPG), the German Society of Engineers (VDI), and the Standards Committee Precision Engineering and Optics of the German Institute of Standardisation (DIN).
2019 will be a year of change. According to recent forecasts [1] the growth in photonics markets will cool down to a few percent, which comes after some exciting years such as 2017 with strong 21.6% growth. After an unusually long economic upswing we see business calming.
Analysts name some reasons such as new tariffs, and Brexit. Whether it is coming or not, Brexit will have a long-lasting influence on Europe. Today’s academic research is based on international collaboration, so any separating efforts are disastrous. Some UK scientists have already established strategic alliances with their continental colleagues to soften the effects of Brexit on their funding situation [2].
Fortunately, academic publishing is widely independent of such trends. We have the inspiring task to track and to mirror new technological trends. This we did in 2018 and so we plan for 2019. Currently, we have four topical issues confirmed for this year:
Illumination optics (Guest editors: Cornelius Neumann, Tran Quoc Khanh)
Interdisciplinary simulation (Guest editors: Alois Herkommer, Fabian Duerr)
3D lithography (Guest Editors: Robert Kirchner, Jun Taniguchi)
Microscope objectives
The latter refers to a unique project where Yueqian Zhang and Herbert Gross from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena embark on giving a systematic review of the optical design of microscope objectives across all major manufacturers. It is quite unusual to reserve one issue for one team of authors, but in this case it appears well legitimated by the size of the material and the reputation of the authors.
Annual citation statistics
Reputation is an important topic. Advanced Optical Technologies (AOT) has increased its impact in 2018. Elsevier’s CiteScore for AOT has again increased, now it stands at 1.31, meaning that on average, every three AOT papers are cited 4 times. This is a nice improvement after 0.69 (2015) and 0.99 (2016). The forecast for 2018 is already positive: as of the 7th of January we stand at 1.33 which may increase in the next months as more documents from 2018 are scanned. This places AOT among reputed titles such as Applied Optics (1.84), and Optical Engineering (1.12).
2018 Reviewers in Advanced Optical Technologies
Any progress in AOT’s reputation is based on quality. While this sounds simple, in reality it is not. Every manuscript that is not immediately rejected goes through a careful peer review process. At least two peers read and comment on the manuscript. These comments usually help to improve the quality of the manuscript.
Thus, we see every day how fundamental a careful peer review works for the quality of manuscripts and therefore for the quality of the journal. Our readers acknowledge this by increasingly citing the journal. In turn, I would like to take the opportunity to give these reviewers a public acknowledgment. These reviewers have contributed voluntarily to make this ongoing success possible. Thank you very much! In the following you will find all the reviewer names of those who did such a careful job for AOT authors in 2018:
Antonio Ancona
Jan Audenaert
Stefan Bauemer
Jörg Baumgart
Matthias Beier
Peter Bender
Stephan Berlitz
Jörn Bonse
Ulf Brauneck
Timothy Bunning
Jan Burke
Laurent Calvez
William Cassarly
Xinbin Cheng
Ya Cheng
Oliver Dross
Jörg Eberhardt
Zexin Feng
R. A. S. Ferreira
Lawrence Flynn
Ichiro Fujieda
Roland Geyl
Arnold Gillner
Matthew Greenhouse
Hongyu Guan
Carsten Gut
P. Shiv Halasyamani
Shaul Hanany
Lakshminarayan Hazra
Alois Herkommer
Andrew Hicks
Gary Hill
Alexander Horn
Lei Huang
Heinz Huber
Wolfgang Husinsky
Valery Jacobs
Peter Jäschke
David Jenkins
Marco Jupe
Malgosia Kaczmarek
I.C. Khoo
Sang-Jae Kim
Adam Klej
Bob Kruizinga
Jeff Kuhn
Roland Lachmayer
Grigory Lazarev
Qingyu Meng
Akihiro Mochizuki
Cornelius Neumann
Hiroyuki Niino
James Oliver
Heidi Ottevaere
Samuel Pellicori
Mikhail E. Povarnitsyn
Francesco Prudenzano
Gediminas Raciukaitis
Victor Reshetnyak
Kathleen A. Richardson
Francois Riguet
Detlev Ristau
Bernhard Roth
Giacomo Salvadori
Shannon Sankar
Marc Schnieper
Henning Schröder
Georgiy Shakhgildyan
Frank Siegel
Harun H. Solak
Steffen Sommer
Johannes Stock
Slawomir Sujecki
Oliver Suttmann
Matteo Taccola
Juha Toivonen
Klaus Trampert
Giorgios Tsibidis
Michael Vergöhl
SteffenWeissmantel
Jianing Yao
Jianing Youngman
Klaus Zimmer
Yours sincerely,
About the authors
Andreas Thoss studied physics and received the diploma and PhD degrees from the Free University Berlin in 1995 and 2003, respectively. For both degrees, he did research at the Max-Born-Institute Berlin on the field of ultra-short and ultra-intense laser pulses. From 1996 to 1999, he worked as a development engineer for medical laser systems with Aesculap-Meditec (now ZEISS Meditec) in Jena. In 2003 he joined the international publishing house John Wiley & Sons. There, he gathered comprehensive experience as publisher, editor and commissioning editor in the areas of book, journal and online publishing. Among others, he co-founded the journals Laser & Photonics Reviews (2007) and the Journal of Biophotonics (2008). Since its foundation in 2010 he manages THOSS Media, where he co-founded Advanced Optical Technologies.
Michael Pfeffer graduated in 1998 at the Institute of Applied Optics at EPFL (Switzerland), obtaining his PhD for a thesis in the field of Optical Nanotechnology. In 2002, after several years working in the Swiss optics industry, he was appointed Full Professor of Optics and Engineering in the Department of Physical Engineering of Hochschule Ravensburg-Weingarten, University of Applied Sciences (Germany). Dr. Pfeffer teaches and researches in the field of optics, physical instrument design and nanotechnology. Currently, he serves as Vice-Rector for Research and International Relations. In 2005, the General Membership Meeting elected him to the Executive Board and CEO for the DGaO-Annual Meeting 2006. From 2008 to 2012 he served as President of the German Society of applied Optics (DGaO). In 2012 he was elected as Secretary of the Board of the European Optical Society (EOS). Dr. Pfeffer is member of the German Physical Society (DPG), the German Society of Engineers (VDI), and the Standards Committee Precision Engineering and Optics of the German Institute of Standardisation (DIN).
References
[1] ‘What goes up…’, G. Overton, A. Nogee, D. Belforte, J. Wallace, B. Gefvert, Laser Focus World 55, 40 (2019).Suche in Google Scholar
[2] ‘Bracing for Brexit’, M. Moser, Optics & Photonics News, 14. December 2018, www.osa-opn.org/home/newsroom/2018/december/bracing_for_brexit/.Suche in Google Scholar
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Cover and Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Reviewer recognition and editor’s note 2019
- Community
- EOS News
- Editorial
- Illumination optics for indoor lighting, automotive and street lighting
- Topical Issue: Illumination optics for indoor lighting, automotive and street lighting
- Tutorial
- Illumination design patterns for homogenization and color mixing
- Review Article
- High-resolution headlamps – technology analysis and system design
- Research Articles
- Creating high contrast in virtual night driving
- Spectral ray data for optical simulations
- Photobiological safety of LED-based lighting systems – theory and practical hazard assessment
- Road projections as a new and intuitively understandable human-machine interface
