Physics:Physical Review Letters

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Physical Review Letters  
|Subject |Discipline}}Physics
LanguageEnglish
Edited by
  • Rafael Fernandes
  • Robert Garisto
  • Abhishek Agarwal
  • Serena Dalena
  • Samindranath Mitra
Publication details
History1958–present
Publisher
FrequencyWeekly
partial
LicenseCC-BY 4.0 International license
9.0 (2024)
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 Physics Nobel Prize-winning papers between 1995 and 2017 were published in it.[1]

PRL is published both online and as a print journal. Its focus is on short articles ("letters") for a broad readership.[2] The Lead Editor (main science advisor) is Rafael Fernandes. The Chief Editor (responsible for the journal content[3]), is Robert Garisto.[4][5]

History

The journal was created in 1958, by Samuel Goudsmit, who was then the editor of Physical Review, the American Physical Society's primary journal. He turned the Letters to the Editor section of Physical Review into a new standalone flagship journal: Physical Review Letters. It was the first journal intended for the rapid publication of short articles, a format that eventually became popular in many other fields.[6]

Notable articles

Scope

PRL covers all areas of physics and related topics. The journal is divided into the following sections:[4]

A section before the table of contents highlights a small number of particularly notable articles in each edition.[10][11]

Journal ranking summary

The following table presents the most recent journal ranking metrics for Physical Review Letters based on data from Scopus and Web of Science categories.

Journal ranking summary (2023) [12]

Source Category Rank Percentile Quartile
Scopus General Physics and Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy 13/243 94.65 Q1
Web of Science (IF) Physics, Multidisciplinary 8/110 93.20 Q1
Web of Science (JCI) Physics, Multidisciplinary 8/110 92.73 Q1

Abstracting, indexing, and impact factor

Physical Review Letters is indexed in the following bibliographic databases:[4]

  • Chemical Abstracts
  • Computer & Control Abstracts
  • Current Physics Index
  • Electrical & Electronics Index
  • Energy Research Abstracts
  • GeoRef
  • INSPEC
  • International Aerospace Abstracts
  • Mathematical Reviews
  • Medline
  • Metals Abstracts
  • Nuclear Science Abstracts
  • Physics Abstracts
  • PubSCIENCE
  • SPIN
  • World Aluminum Abstracts

See also

  • Science
  • Nature
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

References

  1. ↑ Conroy, Gemma (2020-01-16). "These four journals publish the most Nobel Prize-winning papers in physics" (in en). https://www.nature.com/nature-index/news/journals-publish-most-nobel-prize-winning-research-papers-physics. 
  2. ↑ Garisto, Robert; Chaté, Hugues (2024-07-19). "Editorial: Whither Letters?" (in en-US). Physical Review Letters 133 (3). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.030001. ISSN 0031-9007. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.030001. 
  3. ↑ "Editorial Roles in the Physical Review Journals" (in en-US). Physical Review Journals. 2023-11-07. https://journals.aps.org/editorial-roles. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "About Physical Review Letters". American Physical Society. https://journals.aps.org/prl/about. 
  5. ↑ "Physical Review Letters Staff". American Physical Society. 2007-12-03. https://journals.aps.org/prl/staff. 
  6. ↑ Bederson, Benjamin (2008) (in en). Samuel Abraham Goudsmit: a Biographical Memoir. National Academy of Sciences. https://www.nasonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/goudsmit-samuel.pdf. 
  7. ↑ Binnig, G.; Rohrer, H.; Gerber, Ch.; Weibel, E. (1982-07-05). "Surface Studies by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy" (in en). Physical Review Letters 49 (1): 57–61. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.49.57. ISSN 0031-9007. Bibcode: 1982PhRvL..49...57B. https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.49.57. 
  8. ↑ Binnig, G.; Quate, C. F.; Gerber, Ch. (1986-03-03). "Atomic Force Microscope" (in en). Physical Review Letters 56 (9): 930–933. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.930. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 10033323. Bibcode: 1986PhRvL..56..930B. https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.930. 
  9. ↑ Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Abernathy, M. R.; Acernese, F.; Ackley, K.; Adams, C.; Adams, T. et al. (2016-02-11). "Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger" (in en). Physical Review Letters 116 (6). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 26918975. Bibcode: 2016PhRvL.116f1102A. https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102. 
  10. ↑ "Table of Contents". Physical Review Letters 102 (17). 1 May 2009. https://journals.aps.org/prl/issues/102/17. 
  11. ↑ "Table of Contents". Physical Review Letters 105 (1). 2 July 2010. https://journals.aps.org/prl/issues/105/1. 
  12. ↑ JRank: Physical Review Letters – https://jrank.net/journals/phys-rev-lett/metrics



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