Physica Scripta
Last updated ISSN 0031-8949
Physica Scripta is published by IOP Publishing in physics and astronomy. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $2,400.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Physica Scripta concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
- Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Nuclear physics research studies
- Nonlinear Waves and Solitons
- Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma
- Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
- Magnetic confinement fusion research
- Nonlinear Photonic Systems
- Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates
Key facts
| Publisher | IOP Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0031-8949, 1402-4896 |
| Subject area | Physics and Astronomy |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $2,400 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 34,745 |
| Publishing since | 1970 |
| Journal website | iopscience.iop.org/1402-4896 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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