Physical Review Letters
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Physical Review Letters (PRL), established in 1958, is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal that is published 52 times per year by the American Physical Society. As also confirmed by various measurement standards, which include the Journal Citation Reports impact factor and the journal h-index proposed by Google Scholar, many physicists and other scientists consider Physical Review Letters to be one of the most prestigious journals in the field of physics.[1][2][3]
PRL is published as a print journal, and is in electronic format, online and CD-ROM. Its focus is rapid dissemination of significant, or notable, results of
Scope and organizational format
Physical Review Letters is an internationally read physics journal with a diverse readership. Advances in physics, as well as cross disciplinary developments, are disseminated weekly, via this publication. Topics covered by this journal are also the explicit titles for each section of the journal. Sections are delineated (in the table of contents) as follows:[1][5][6]
- General Physics: Statistical and Quantum mechanics, Quantum information, etc.
- Gravitation and astrophysics
- Elementary particles and fields
- Nuclear physics
- Atomic, molecular, and optical physics
- Classical optics, etc.
- Plasma and beam physics
- Condensed matter: Structure, etc.
- Condensed Matter: Semiconductor-Electronic properties, etc.
- Polymer, Soft matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary physics
Worthy of note is a section at the front of the table of contents which consists of articles that are highlighted for their particular importance and interest. This section contains articles suggested by the editors of the journal or which have been covered by the site "Physics" (formerly Physical Review Focus).[5][6]
Historical overview
On May 20, 1899, 36
Abstracting, indexing, and impact factor
Physical Review Letters is indexed in the following bibliographic databases:[1]
- Chemical Abstracts
- Computer & Control Abstracts
- Current Physics Index
- Electrical & Electronics Index
- Energy Research Abstracts
- GeoRef
- INSPEC
- International Aerospace Abstracts
- Mathematical Reviews
- Medline
- Metals Abstracts
- Nuclear Science Abstracts
- Physics Abstracts
- PubSCIENCE
- SPIN
- World Aluminum Abstracts
See also
- First observation of gravitational waves
- 1964 PRL symmetry breaking papers
- American Journal of Physics
- Annales Henri Poincaré
- CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
References
- ^ a b c d "About Physical Review Letters". American Physical Society. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
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- ^ "English - Google Scholar Metrics". Google Scholar. 2015. Retrieved 18 January 2015. According to Google Scholar, PRL is the journal with the 9th journal h-index among all scientific journals
- ^ "Physical Review Letters Staff". American Physical Society. 2007-12-03. Retrieved 2010-07-09.
- ^ a b "Table of Contents". Physical Review Letters. 102 (17). 1 May 2009.
- ^ a b "Table of Contents". Physical Review Letters. 105 (1). 2 July 2010.
- ^ "Society History". American Physical Society. Retrieved 2010-07-09.
- ^ "Table of Contents". Physical Review Letters. 1 (1). 1 July 1958. Retrieved 2010-07-09.