Physics
Last updated ISSN 1943-2879
Physics is published by American Physical Society in physics and astronomy. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Physics concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates
- Quantum Mechanics and Applications
- Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
- Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research
- Quantum and electron transport phenomena
- Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
- Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics
- Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
Key facts
| Publisher | American Physical Society |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1943-2879 |
| Subject area | Physics and Astronomy |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Not recorded |
| Articles published | 6,096 |
| Publishing since | 2001 |
| Journal website | physics.aps.org/ |
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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