''Open Physics'' is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering all aspects of

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 ...

. It is published by

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and 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 Sally Seidel (

University of New Mexico The University of New Mexico (UNM; es, Universidad de Nuevo México) is a public research university in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Founded in 1889, it is the state's flagship academic institution and the largest by enrollment, with over 25,400 ...

). Occasionally, the journal publishes special issues on a specific topic.

History

The journal was established in 2003 as the ''Central European Journal of Physics''. It was co-published by Versita and

Springer Science+Business Media Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing. Originally founded in 1842 ...

. The founding editor-in-chief was Janos Lendvai ( Eötvös Loránd University), who was succeeded in 2004 by Vladimir E. Zakharov (

University of Arizona The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it was the first university in the Arizona Territory. T ...

and

Lebedev Physical Institute The Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LPI RAS or just LPI) (in russian: Физи́ческий институ́т имени П.Н.Ле́бедева Российской академии наук (ФИАН)), situated ...

) and in 2011 by Feng. In 2014 the journal was moved to

. It obtained its current name in 2015 and simultaneously became open access.

Abstracting and indexing

The journals is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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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 1.361.

References

External links

* {{Official website, https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/phys/phys-overview.xml Physics journals Publications established in 2003 English-language journals Creative Commons Attribution-licensed journals De Gruyter academic journals