Optometry and Vision Science

{{short description|Journal of the American Academy of Optometry}}

{{Infobox journal

| title = Optometry and Vision Science

| cover = 2013 cover Optom Vis Sci.jpg

| editor = Michael D. Twa

| discipline = Optometry, vision science

| former_names = American Journal of Optometry and Physiological Optics
American Journal of Optometry and Archives of the American Academy of Optometry
American Journal of Optometry

| abbreviation = Optom. Vis. Sci.

| publisher = Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

| country =

| frequency = Monthly

| history = 1924–present

| openaccess =

| license =

| impact = 1.409

| impact-year = 2016

| website = http://journals.lww.com/optvissci/pages/default.aspx

| link1 = http://journals.lww.com/optvissci/pages/currenttoc.aspx

| link1-name = Online access

| link2 = http://journals.lww.com/optvissci/pages/issuelist.aspx

| link2-name = Online archive

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| CODEN = OVSCET

| ISSN = 1040-5488

| eISSN = 1538-9235

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Optometry and Vision Science is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins on behalf of the American Academy of Optometry. The journal was established in 1924 as the American Journal of Optometry. It was renamed the American Journal of Optometry and Archives of the American Academy of Optometry in 1941, then to the American Journal of Optometry and Physiological Optics in 1974, before obtaining its current title in 1989. The editor-in-chief is Michael D. Twa of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed,{{cite web |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/8904931 |title=Optometry and Vision Science |work=NLM Catalog |publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information |access-date=2013-10-31}} the Science Citation Index, and Current Contents/Clinical Medicine.{{cite web |url=http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/ |title=Master Journal List |publisher=Thomson Reuters |work=Intellectual Property & Science |access-date=2013-10-31}} According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2012 impact factor of 1.895.{{cite book |year=2013 |chapter=Optometry and Vision Science |title=2012 Journal Citation Reports |publisher=Thomson Reuters |edition=Science |series=Web of Science |title-link=Journal Citation Reports }}

Garland W. Clay Award

This award is given to the authors of the article published by the journal that has been most widely cited in the world of scientific literature in the preceding five years.{{cite web|title=Garland W. Clay Award|url=http://www.aaopt.org/About/clayAward|publisher=American Academy of Optometry|access-date=February 18, 2016}} Winners have included:

References

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