The total number of publication (@December 2017) since the creation of the laboratory is 1601 with a sum of time cited of 52913 according to Web Of Knowledge data analysis. Without taking account proceedings of conference, this correspond to an h-index of 111 (111 papers are cited more than 111 times) and an average citation per item of 42. LOA has published 226 articles in peered-review journals in 2013-2017 , which corresponds to an average of 45 articles published per year.

In the top ranked journals with impact factors higher than 8, LOA teams have published 40 articles in the period 2013-2017 among which 7 are from journals with impact factors larger than 20 like Review of Modern Physics, Nature, Nature Physics, Nature Photonics. An analysis from SCImago Journal Rankings (SJR indicator) and Scival Bibliometric data source is also presented. In average, close to 20% of the LOA articles are published in the top 1% ranked journals, 40 % within the top 5% and more than the half (60%) within the top 10%. The average number of invitations at conferences per year is 40.

