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Physical Review Letters

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Physical Review Letters
DisciplinePhysics
LanguageEnglish
Edited by
  • Hugues Chaté
  • Robert Garisto
  • Samindranath Mitra
Publication details
History1958–present
Publisher
FrequencyWeekly
partial
8.6 (2022)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Phys. Rev. Lett.
Indexing
CODENPRLTAO
ISSN0031-9007 (print)
1079-7114 (web)
LCCN59037543
OCLC no.1715834
CD-ROM issue
ISSN1092-0145
Links

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. The journal is considered one of the most prestigious in the field of physics. Over a quarter of Nobel Prize-winning papers between 1995 and 2017 were published in it.[1]

PRL is published as a print journal, and is in electronic format, online and CD-ROM. Its focus is on short articles ("letters") intended for quick publication. The Lead Editor is Hugues Chaté. The Managing Editor is Robert Garisto.[2][3]

Scope and organizational format

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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:[2][4][5]

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).[4][5]

Historical overview

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On May 20, 1899, 36 physicists gathered to establish the American Physical Society at Columbia University, in the City of New York. These 36 decided that the mission of the APS would be "to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics". In the beginning the dissemination of physics knowledge took place only through quarterly scientific meetings. In 1913, the APS took over the operation of Physical Review, already in existence since 1893. Hence, journal publication also became an important goal, second only to its original mission. During the late 1950s, the then editor Sam Goudsmit collected, organized and published Letters to the Editor of Physical Review into a new standalone journal. This established the Physical Review Letters, Volume 1, Issue 1 was published on July 1, 1958 (see archives link). As the years passed the research fields in physics multiplied, and so did the number of submissions. Consequently, Physical Review was divided into five separate sections after December 1969 into Physical Review A, B, C, D and E, which are distinct from Physical Review Letters.[6][7]

Abstracting, indexing, and impact factor

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Physical Review Letters is indexed in the following bibliographic databases:[2]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Conroy, Gemma (2020-01-16). "These four journals publish the most Nobel Prize-winning papers in physics". Nature Index. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
  2. ^ a b c "About Physical Review Letters". American Physical Society. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
  3. ^ "Physical Review Letters Staff". American Physical Society. 2007-12-03. Retrieved 2010-07-09.
  4. ^ a b "Table of Contents". Physical Review Letters. 102 (17). 1 May 2009.
  5. ^ a b "Table of Contents". Physical Review Letters. 105 (1). 2 July 2010.
  6. ^ "Society History". American Physical Society. Retrieved 2010-07-09.
  7. ^ "Table of Contents". Physical Review Letters. 1 (1). 1 July 1958. Retrieved 2010-07-09.
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