''Nature Reviews Physics'' is a monthly
peer-reviewed scientific journal published by
Nature Portfolio
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. It was established in 2019 as an online-only journal. The
editor-in-chief
An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies.
The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
is Iulia Georgescu.
Scope
The journal publishes reviews, perspective, roadmap, technical review, expert recommendation, comment, year in review, viewpoint, and feature in all areas of fundamental and applied physics. Specific materials of interest will include, but are not limited to:
* Atomic, molecular and optical physics
*
Biophysics
Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that applies approaches and methods traditionally used in physics to study biological phenomena. Biophysics covers all scales of biological organization, from molecular to organismic and populations. ...
*
Condensed matter
Condensed matter physics is the field of physics that deals with the macroscopic and microscopic physical properties of matter, especially the solid and liquid phases which arise from electromagnetic forces between atoms. More generally, the su ...
and
materials physics
*
Fluid dynamics
* General
physics
Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...
*
Gravitation,
cosmology
Cosmology () is a branch of physics and metaphysics dealing with the nature of the universe. The term ''cosmology'' was first used in English in 1656 in Thomas Blount's ''Glossographia'', and in 1731 taken up in Latin by German philosopher ...
and
astrophysics
*
High-energy physics
Particle physics or high energy physics is the study of fundamental particles and forces that constitute matter and radiation. The fundamental particles in the universe are classified in the Standard Model as fermions (matter particles) a ...
(particles and fields, accelerators and beams)
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Mathematical physics
Mathematical physics refers to the development of mathematical methods for application to problems in physics. The '' Journal of Mathematical Physics'' defines the field as "the application of mathematics to problems in physics and the developme ...
* Networks
* Nonlinear dynamics
*
Nuclear physics
Nuclear physics is the field of physics that studies atomic nuclei and their constituents and interactions, in addition to the study of other forms of nuclear matter.
Nuclear physics should not be confused with atomic physics, which studies the ...
*
Photonics
Photonics is a branch of optics that involves the application of generation, detection, and manipulation of light in form of photons through emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, switching, amplification, and sensing. Though ...
*
Physical chemistry
Physical chemistry is the study of macroscopic and microscopic phenomena in chemical systems in terms of the principles, practices, and concepts of physics such as motion, energy, force, time, thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistica ...
*
* Polymers and soft matter
* Quantum mechanics, information and technologies
* Software and data analysis
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Statistical physics
Statistical physics is a branch of physics that evolved from a foundation of statistical mechanics, which uses methods of probability theory and statistics, and particularly the mathematical tools for dealing with large populations and approxim ...
* Techniques and instrumentation
* Physics and society, and history of physics
Impact factor
According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2021
impact factor
The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as ...
of 36.273, ranking it 3rd out of 161 journals in the category "Physics, Applied"
and 2nd out of 86 journals in the category "Physics, Multidisciplinary".
References
External links
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Physics journals
Nature Research academic journals
Academic journals established in 2019
Monthly journals
English-language journals
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