The Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme (PACS) is a scheme developed in 1970
by the
American Institute of Physics
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) promotes science and the profession of physics, publishes physics journals, and produces publications for scientific and engineering societies. The AIP is made up of various member societies. Its corpora ...
(AIP) for classifying scientific literature using a hierarchical set of codes.
PACS has been used by over 160 international journals,
[ including the '' Physical Review'' series since 1975. Since 2016, American Physical Society introduced the PhySH (Physics Subject Headings) system instead of PACS.
]
Discontinuation
AIP has announced that ''PACS 2010'' will be the final version, but it will continue to be available through their website.
Reports on Progress in Physics. 2013. (scroll to the bottom of the page)
In association with Access Innovations, Inc., the AIP has developed a new "AIP Thesaurus",
which it states will enable faster, more accurate and more efficient searches.
See also
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Mathematics Subject Classification
The Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC) is an alphanumerical classification scheme collaboratively produced by staff of, and based on the coverage of, the two major mathematical reviewing databases, Mathematical Reviews and Zentralblatt MATH. ...
(MSC)
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Computing Classification System
The ACM Computing Classification System (CCS) is a subject classification system for computing devised by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The system is comparable to the Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC) in scope, aims, and st ...
(CCS)
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PhySH (Physics Subject Headings)
References
External links
*https://journals.aps.org/PACS PACS
*https://web.archive.org/web/20070826124822/http://www.aip.org/pacs/Information on PACS
*https://web.archive.org/web/20171201041118/https://publishing.aip.org/publishing/pacs/pacs-2010-regular-editionPACS 2010
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Scientific classification
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