Physics Today
Last updated ISSN 0031-9228
Physics Today is published by AIP Publishing in medicine. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Physics Today concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Science, Research, and Medicine
- International Science and Diplomacy
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- History and advancements in chemistry
- History and Developments in Astronomy
- Twentieth Century Scientific Developments
- Educational Robotics and Engineering
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Space exploration and regulation
- Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
Key facts
| Publisher | AIP Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0031-9228, 1945-0699 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 54,607 |
| Publishing since | 1930 |
| Journal website | www.physicstoday.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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