Solid State Communications is a

peer-review Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

ed scientific journal of solid-state physics. The journal specializes in short papers on significant developments in the condensed matter science. The journal was established 1963, when the '' Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids'' split its letters section to create this journal.

Elias Burstein Elias Burstein (September 30, 1917 – June 17, 2017) was an American experimental condensed matter physicist whose active career in science spanned seven decades. He is known for his pioneering fundamental research in the optical physics of ...

served as founding chief editor until 1992, and was succeeded by

Manuel Cardona Manuel Cardona Castro (7 September 1934 – 2 July 2014) was a condensed matter physicist. According to the ISI Citations web database, Cardona was one of the eight most cited physicists since 1970. He specialized in solid state physics. Car ...

until 2004, when

Aron Pinczuk Aron Pinczuk (February 15, 1939 – February 13, 2022) was an Argentine-American experimental Condensed matter physics, condensed matter physicist who was professor of physics and professor of applied physics at Columbia University. He was known f ...

assumed the role. Pinczuk stepped down in 2020. The journal is published bimonthly by

Elsevier Elsevier () is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content. Its products include journals such as '' The Lancet'', '' Cell'', the ScienceDirect collection of electronic journals, '' Trends'', ...

and its current editor-in-chief is François Peeters ( University of Antwerp).

Abstracting and Indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexing in the following databases: * Cambridge Scientific Abstracts * Chemical Abstracts * Current Contents/Physics, Chemical, & Earth Sciences * Current Contents/ SciSearch Database * Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences * MSCI *

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* INSPEC * PASCAL/ CNRS * Research Alert * SSSA/ CISA/ ECA/ ISMEC * Scopus

External links

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