''Chinese Physics C'' (CPC) is a monthly

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published by the

Chinese Physical Society The Chinese Physical Society (CPS) a professional society of physicists established in 1932. It is part of the China Association for Science and Technology. Current membership is at around 40,000. CPS has been a member of the International Union ...

along with the Institute of High Energy Physics,

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. CPC is hosted online by

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. It reports on research into the theory, experiment and applications of particle physics, nuclear physics and astrophysics. The journal was established in 1977 as ''High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics'', and renamed to its present title in 2008. Its current

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is 2.145 (2020). ''Chinese Physics C'' is part of the

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initiative. In 2014 and 2016, the journal hosted the publication of the

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's bi-annual ''Review of Particle Physics'', the most highly cited article in the field of

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