Where National Eye Institute Funded Research Is Published: Top 36 Journals

In shortNational Eye Institute (United States) is named as a funder in the recent research articles of 36 journals we checked, most often in Ophthalmology Glaucoma (31 of 200 recent articles). The journals below publish its funded work most often; open a journal for its indexing, review time, reviewer comments and fee waivers.

Journals that publish National Eye Institute funded research most often

#	Journal	Articles naming it	Indexing	Impact factor*	Median review time
1	Ophthalmology Glaucoma	31 of 200	ESCI	1.95	n/a
2	The Ocular Surface	26 of 200	SCIE	4.76	n/a
3	Progress in Retinal and Eye Research	20 of 165	SCIE	13.00	n/a
4	Ophthalmology Science	19 of 200	ESCI	3.25	n/a
5	Optometry and Vision Science	19 of 200	SCIE	2.26	112 days
6	Ophthalmology	18 of 200	SCIE	3.94	n/a
7	Experimental Eye Research	17 of 200	SCIE	2.70	n/a
8	American Journal of Ophthalmology	15 of 200	SCIE	3.98	n/a
9	Vision Research	14 of 200	SCIE	2.07	n/a
10	American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports	11 of 200	Scopus	0.88	n/a
11	Ophthalmic Genetics	11 of 200	SCIE	0.88	154 days
12	American Journal Of Pathology	10 of 200	SCIE	3.90	n/a
13	BMJ Open Ophthalmology	7 of 200	ESCI	3.34	n/a
14	Documenta Ophthalmologica	7 of 163	SCIE	1.56	127 days
15	Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology	7 of 200	SCIE	1.21	n/a
16	Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics	7 of 200	SCIE	3.71	136 days
17	Advances in Ophthalmology and Optometry	5 of 61	Scopus	0.19	n/a
18	Developmental Biology	5 of 200	SCIE	1.97	n/a
19	Glia	5 of 200	SCIE	4.68	178 days
20	Journal of American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus	5 of 200	SCIE	0.45	n/a
21	Journal of VitreoRetinal Diseases	5 of 200	ESCI	1.60	n/a
22	Attention Perception & Psychophysics	4 of 200	SCIE SSCI	1.88	236 days
23	British Journal of Ophthalmology	4 of 200	SCIE	4.18	n/a
24	Journal of Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics	4 of 200	SCIE	1.71	n/a
25	Drugs	3 of 200	SCIE	11.95	70 days
26	Frontiers in Ophthalmology	3 of 200	ESCI	2.15	n/a
27	Visual Cognition	3 of 60	SSCI	1.57	241 days
28	Cornea	2 of 200	SCIE	2.18	107 days
29	Expert Review of Ophthalmology	2 of 96	ESCI	1.18	119 days
30	Journal of Cellular Physiology	2 of 200	SCIE	3.88	163 days
31	Neuro-Ophthalmology	2 of 193	ESCI	0.68	147 days
32	Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience	1 of 200	SCIE	5.39	n/a
33	Frontiers in Epidemiology	1 of 150	Scopus	2.44	n/a
34	International Ophthalmology Clinics	1 of 103	Scopus	1.46	33 days
35	MedComm – Future Medicine	1 of 88	Scopus	2.42	114 days
36	The Journal of Medicine Access	1 of 32	ESCI	2.04	n/a

"Articles naming" counts the research articles (of up to 200 from the last 24 months) whose funder list names National Eye Institute. *Impact factor calculated from OpenAlex open data, not the official Clarivate value. Review time: median days from submission to acceptance, from the dates publishers deposit in Crossref.

Funders named alongside National Eye Institute

Other funders that appear in the same journals. Their pages show where their funded research is published.

National Institutes of Health Research to Prevent Blindness National Natural Science Foundation of China Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft National Health and Medical Research Council National Key Research and Development Program of China China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Hyderabad Eye Research Foundation Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada U.S. Department of Defense Wellcome Trust AbbVie Medical Research Council Foundation for the National Institutes of Health National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences

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Frequently asked questions

Which journals publish the most National Eye Institute funded research?

In the recent research articles we checked, the journals that name National Eye Institute as a funder most often are Ophthalmology Glaucoma, The Ocular Surface, Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, Ophthalmology Science, Optometry and Vision Science. In all, 36 journals name it.

Does publishing in these journals help my National Eye Institute grant?

These journals already publish work supported by National Eye Institute, so editors and reviewers know this kind of research. Whether a journal suits your paper still depends on its scope, indexing and review time, shown for each journal in the table.

Does National Eye Institute pay the article processing charge (APC)?

Many funders pay or reimburse open access fees under their open access policy, but the rules differ by funder and by grant. Check National Eye Institute's open access policy and your grant terms; for country-based waivers, use the free APC waiver checker.

Where does this data come from?

From the funder information publishers deposit with each article in Crossref. For each journal, ScholarsColab looked at up to 200 research articles from the last 24 months and counted the funders they name. Not every publisher deposits funders, so a journal can be missing.

Source, method and date. Source: the funder information publishers deposit with each article in Crossref. Method: for each journal, ScholarsColab looked at up to 200 research articles from the last 24 months and counted the funders they name; spelling variants of a funder are combined. Updated: 29 October 2026. ScholarsColab is not affiliated with National Eye Institute or these journals.