''Optometry and Vision Science'' is a monthly

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published by

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on behalf of the

American Academy of Optometry The American Academy of Optometry (AAO) is an organization of optometrist Optometry is a specialized health care profession that involves examining the eyes and related structures for defects or abnormalities. Optometrists are health care prof ...

. 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

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is Michael D. Twa of the

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in

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, the

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, and

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/Clinical Medicine. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2012

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of 1.895.

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. Winners have included: * Nathan Efron - 1980 *

Jan E. Lovie-Kitchin Jan E. Lovie-Kitchin is an Australian optometrist, former professor at Queensland University of Technology and founder of the university's Vision Rehabilitation Centre. She was the co-developer of the Bailey-Lovie visual acuity chart. Biograph ...

- 1998 * Konrad Pesudovs - 2009 & 2011 *

Max Snodderly Max Snodderly is an American professor of biology and ophthalmology, a Garland W. Clay Award recipient, and author of numerous research papers. Biography Snodderly got a scholarship to attend MIT and received bachelor's and master's degrees in el ...

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://journals.lww.com/optvissci/pages/default.aspx Ophthalmology journals Publications established in 1924 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins academic journals Monthly journals English-language journals