Physical Review
Physical Review is one of the oldest and most prestigious journals in physics. The magazine exists since 1893 and is published ( the Professional Association of Physicists in the U.S.) since 1913 by the American Physical Society, now in collaboration with the Federation American Institute of Physics.
Since the magazine was becoming more extensive, you first split off a 1958 "Letters " journal, and then divided in 1970, the main journal in sections (A -D).
The magazines family, particularly Physical Review Letters, is considered one of the most prestigious journals for physics. Only articles of very high quality will be accepted by the peer- review process. In many areas of physics publication in PRL comes in the appreciation right after Science and Nature.
Today appear weekly or monthly:
- Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
- Physical Review B: Condensed Matter Physics, Materials Science
- Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics
- Physical Review D: high energy physics, field theory, gravitation, cosmology
- Physical Review E: Statistical Physics, Nonlinear Systems, Soft Matter Physics ( 1993 )
- Physical Review Letters: All areas of physics; it only reports results that are also for physicists outside their field of interest; only short article with 4 pages allowed. PRL is probably the most prestigious journal in physics
- Reviews of Modern Physics: Review article, ie that longer essays that summarize the state of knowledge in a field of physics and process (since 1929)
- Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams particle accelerators and particle beams (since 1998)
- Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research on Physics Education (since 2005)
- Physical Review X: all areas of physics; open access online journal, articles are published under the Creative Commons license CC -BY ( since 2011 )
No other magazine in the strict sense, but is associated
- Physical Review Focus: a web news service that reports on the latest research results of physics in a form that is understandable to non-specialists with physical education ( since 1998).
All products since founded in 1893, are available in electronic form in the Physical Review Online Archive, which subscribers, however - typically university libraries - is reserved. Article summaries, however, are free of cost. Since November 2006, as part of the "Free to Read " program authors ( or other interested parties ) can be made available online through payment of a fee an article for all free and on time.