Physical Review

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Physical Review is a

scientific and literature reviews on all aspects of physics. It is published by the American Physical Society (APS). The journal is in its third series, and is split in several sub-journals each covering a particular field of physics. It has a sister journal, Physical Review Letters
, which publishes shorter articles of broader interest.

History

Physical Review commenced publication in July 1893, organized by Cornell University professor Edward Nichols and helped by the new president of Cornell, J. Gould Schurman. The journal was managed and edited at Cornell in upstate New York from 1893 to 1913 by Nichols, Ernest Merritt, and Frederick Bedell. The 33 volumes published during this time constitute Physical Review Series I.

The

John Torrence Tate, Sr.[note 1] at the University of Minnesota. In 1929, the APS started publishing Reviews of Modern Physics
, a venue for longer review articles.

During the Great Depression, wealthy scientist Alfred Loomis anonymously paid the journal's fees for authors who could not afford them.[1]

After Tate's death in 1950, the journals were managed on an interim basis still in Minnesota by E. L. Hill and J. William Buchta until Samuel Goudsmit and Simon Pasternack were appointed and the editorial office moved to Brookhaven National Laboratory on Eastern Long Island, New York. In July 1958, the sister journal Physical Review Letters was introduced to publish short articles of particularly broad interest, initially edited by George L. Trigg, who remained as editor until 1988.

In 1970, Physical Review split into sub-journals Physical Review A, B, C, and D. A fifth member of the family, Physical Review E, was introduced in 1993 to a large part to accommodate the huge amount of new research in

nonlinear dynamics
. Combined, these constitute Physical Review Series III.

The editorial office moved in 1980 to its present location across the expressway from Brookhaven National Laboratory. Goudsmit retired in 1974 and Pasternack in the mid-1970s. Past Editors in Chief include

SUNY Stony Brook). The current Editor in Chief is Michael Thoennessen, whose term began in September 2017.[2]

To celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the journal, a memoir was published jointly by the APS and AIP.[3]

In 1998, the first issue of

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (CC-BY).[7] Physical Review Letters celebrated their 50th birthday in 2008.[8] The APS has a copyright policy to permit the author to reuse parts of the published article in a derivative or new work, including on Wikipedia.[9]

The APS has an online publication entitled Physics,[10] aiming to help physicists and physics students to learn about new developments outside of their own subfield. This now includes the general-interest articles that appeared as Physical Review Focus. A short-lived journal, also called Physics, was published by Pergamon Press and Physics Publishing Co. from 1964 through 1968, with the goal of printing "a selection of papers which are worth the attention of all physicists."[11] The four volumes of this journal were eventually made freely available online by the APS under the alternative title Physics Physique Физика, reflecting how the title was originally printed on the journal covers and how it was sometimes referred to in the years since.[12][13][14]

It also publishes Physical Review X,

open access journal. It is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes, as timely as possible, original research papers from all areas of pure, applied, and interdisciplinary physics. In 2014 Physical Review Applied[16] began publishing research across all aspects of experimental and theoretical applications of physics, including their interactions with other sciences, engineering, and industry. In 2016 the APS launched Physical Review Fluids "to include additional areas of fluid dynamics research",[17] and in 2017 it launched Physical Review Materials "to fill a gap" in the coverage of materials research.[18] In 2019 Physical Review Research was launched to provide a broad fully open-access journal at about the same selectivity level as the older A - E journals. In 2020, PRX Quantum was launched to provide a home for and connection between the numerous research communities that make up quantum information science and technology, spanning from pure science to engineering to computer science and beyond.[19] In 2023 PRX Life was launched to advance research from the interdisciplinary communities at the interface of the physical and life sciences.[20]

Journals

Journal ISO 4 abbreviation Editor(s) Impact factor (2022) Published Scope ISSN Website
Physical Review Letters Phys. Rev. Lett. Hugues Chaté
Robert Garisto
Samindranath Mitra
8.6 1958–present The full range of applied, fundamental, and interdisciplinary physics research topics
ISSN 1079-7114
(web)
https://journals.aps.org/prl
Physical Review X Phys. Rev. X Denis Bartolo
Ling Miao
12.5 2011–present PRX covers the full spectrum of subject areas in physics and pays particular attention to innovative interdisciplinary research of wide impact
ISSN 2160-3308
(web)
https://journals.aps.org/prx
PRX Energy PRX Energy David Scanlon

Jacilynn (Brant) Otero

Margaret Hudson

2021– present PRX Energy is a highly selective, open access journal featuring energy science and technology research with an emphasis on outstanding and lasting impact.
ISSN 2768-5608
(web)
https://journals.aps.org/prxenergy/
PRX Quantum
PRX Quantum Stephen Bartlett
Katiuscia N. Cassemiro
9.7 2020–present PRX Quantum publishes research in quantum information science and technology, spanning from pure science to engineering to computer science and beyond.
ISSN 2691-3399
(web)
https://journals.aps.org/prxquantum
PRX Life PRX Life Margaret Gardel
Serena Bradde
2022–present PRX Life will publish outstanding research at all scales of biological organization, including a focus on quantitative biological research. (web) https://journals.aps.org/prxlife
Reviews of Modern Physics Rev. Mod. Phys. Randall Kamien
Debbie Brodbar
44.1 1929–present The full range of applied, fundamental, and interdisciplinary physics research topics
ISSN 1539-0756
(web)
https://journals.aps.org/rmp
Physical Review A[note 2] Phys. Rev. A Jan Michael Rost
Thomas Pattard
2.9 1970–present Atomic, molecular, and optical physics, foundations of quantum mechanics and quantum information
ISSN 1094-1622
(web)
https://journals.aps.org/pra
Physical Review B[note 2] Phys. Rev. B
Stephen Nagler
Anthony M. Begley
3.7 1970–present The full range of condensed matter, materials physics, and related subfields
ISSN 1550-235X
(web)
https://journals.aps.org/prb
Physical Review C
Phys. Rev. C Joseph I. Kapusta
Christopher Wesselborg
3.1 1970–present Experimental and theoretical results in all aspects of nuclear physics
ISSN 1089-490X
(web)
https://journals.aps.org/prc
Physical Review D
Phys. Rev. D Mirjam Cvetič
Urs M. Heller
5.0 1970–present Experimental and theoretical results in all aspects of particle physics, field theory, gravitation, and cosmology
ISSN 1550-2368
(web)
https://journals.aps.org/prd
Physical Review E Phys. Rev. E Uwe C. Täuber
Dirk Jan Bukman
2.4 1993–present
ISSN 1550-2376
(web)
https://journals.aps.org/pre
Physical Review Research
Phys. Rev. Res. 4.2 2019–present All research topics of interest to the physics community
ISSN 2643-1564
(web)
https://journals.aps.org/prresearch
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams Frank Zimmermann
Debbie Brodbar
1.7 1998–present All topics in accelerator science, applications, and technology
ISSN 2469-9888
(web)
https://journals.aps.org/prab
Physical Review Applied Phys. Rev. Appl. Stephen R. Forrest
Matthew Eager
4.6 2014–present All aspects of experimental and theoretical applications of physics
ISSN 2331-7019
(web)
https://journals.aps.org/prapplied
Physical Review Fluids Phys. Rev. Fluids Eric Lauga
Beverley McKeon
Bradley Rubin
2.7 2016–present All aspects of fluid dynamics research
ISSN 2469-990X
(web)
https://journals.aps.org/prfluids
Physical Review Materials Phys. Rev. Mater. Chris Leighton
Athanasios Chantis
3.4 2017–present Wide range of topics on materials research
ISSN 2475-9953
(web)
https://journals.aps.org/prmaterials
Physical Review Physics Education Research Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. Charles Henderson
Debbie Brodbar
3.1 2005–present Experimental and theoretical physics education research
ISSN 2469-9896
(web)
https://journals.aps.org/prper
Physics
Physics Matteo Rini 2008–present All of Physics
ISSN 1943-2879
(web)
https://physics.aps.org
Physical Review, Series I Phys. Rev. 1893–1912 All of Physics https://journals.aps.org/archive
Physical Review, Series II[note 2] Phys. Rev. 1913–1969 All of Physics https://journals.aps.org/archive
Physics Physique Физика[note 3]
Philip Warren Anderson
B. T. Matthias
1964–1968 https://journals.aps.org/ppf

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Not to be confused with his son, the number theorist John Torrence Tate Jr.
  2. ^ a b c Volumes 133-140 of the Series II in years 1964 and 1965 were split into issues A and B. Later they were unified into a single series again.[21] They are different from Phys. Rev. A and B of the third series. For example "Phys. Rev. 133 A1 (1964)" is an article of Ser. II, while "Phys. Rev. A 1 1 (1970) is of Phys. Rev. A.
  3. ^ Perhaps most noteworthy for publishing Bell's theorem in 1964.

References

External links

Index of freely available volumes

The term of copyright on volumes published before 1928 has expired. These volumes are available online for free in their entirety:

Physical Review Series I (1893–1912)
Physical Review Series II (1913-1927)