October - December 2026 | Journal of Optometry

Journal of Optometry

ISSN: 1888-4296

The Journal of Optometry (J Optom) is the scientific double blind peer-reviewed publication of the Spanish General Council of Optometry (www.cgcoo.es). Audience of J Optom includes optometrists, ophthalmologists and visual scientists, other professionals and researchers with interests in vision and the eye as well as undergraduate and post-graduate students in those fields. The J Optom welcomes the submission of original manuscripts, reviews, case reports and scientific letters describing clinical and experimental research in all fields related with the eye and vision. Journal of Optometry is an open access journal that publishes articles in English.

The Spanish General Council of Optometry covers 50% of the Article Publishing Charge (APC). This means that authors or funding entity accept to pay 50% of APC in case of acceptance of their manuscript. APC structure for Journal of Optometry can be checked here.

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Impact factor

The Impact Factor measures the average number of citations received in a particular year by papers published in the journal during the two preceding years.

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Impact factor 2025

3.1

Citescore

CiteScore measures average citations received per document published.

Citescore 2025

5.4

SJR

SRJ is a prestige metric based on the idea that not all citations are the same. SJR uses a similar algorithm as the Google page rank; it provides a quantitative and qualitative measure of the journal's impact.

SJR 2025

0.887

SNIP

SNIP measures contextual citation impact by wighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field.

SNIP 2025

1.568

Time to first decision

The median number of days it takes for an article to go from submission to first editorial decision.

Time to first decision

4 days

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Vol. 19. Issue 4. (In progress)

(October - December 2026)

This issue is in progress but contains articles that are final and fully citable.

Original article

Risk behaviors for infectious Keratitis among contact lens wearers in Switzerland: an analysis by contact lens type

Philipp Perschak, Sadiq Said, Simone Metzler, Sandrine Anne Zweifel, Daniel Barthelmes, Dominique Hermann, Didier Herrmann, Farhad Hafezi, ... Frank Blaser

J Optom. 2026;19: 100622

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Effects of task explanation on stereoacuity measurements using a random-dot stereotest

Marc Argilés, Valldeflors Vinuela-Navarro, Luis Pérez-Maña, Silvia Alonso-Matarin, Laura Asensio-Jurado, Cristina Rovira-Gay, Bernat Sunyer-Grau

J Optom. 2026;19: 100625

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