Journals in Physics and Astronomy
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Physics Open - A new broad scope open access journal
Meet Physics Open, the newest addition to Elsevier’s gold open access journal suite. Physics Open welcomes research from all main areas in physics and related areas – whether that be applied, experimental or theoretical physics in nature.
Physics Open sits right beside your favourite physics journal(s), offering you an expert-led open access option.
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Focus on Journals in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Over 20 journals covering space research, astronomy and astrophysics.
Open access for Physics journals: What are your options?
There are many options within Elsevier Physics to publish your next article open access. Most of our journals are either full open access or offer an open access option.
Tributes of Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics
Edited by Massimiliano Esposito, Joseph O. Indekeu
Recycling of Batteries and Electronics
Edited by Linda Gaines, Jeffrey Spangenberger
Ultrafast Magnetism: To the Memory of Prof. Jean-Yves Bigot and Eric Beaurepaire
Edited by Oksana Chubykalo-Fesenko, Alexei Kimel, Mircea Vomir
Celebrating 50 years of CPC
Edited by N. S. Scott, A. Hibbert, J. Ballantyne, S. Fritzsche, A. L. Hazell, D. P. Landau, D. W. Walker, Z. Was
Physics of Mind
Edited by Felix Schoeller
Magnetosphere, Ionosphere and their connection to Space Weather
Edited by Sergio Dasso, M. A Shea
Modeling and forecasting of epidemic spreading: the case of Covid-19 and beyond
Edited by Stefano Boccaletti, Abdon Atangana, Gabriel B. Mindlin, William Ditto
Hybrid Advanced Oxidation Processes involving Ultrasound
Edited by Claudia Bianchi, Daria-Camilla Boffito
NANO-optics and NANOphotonics and its applications
Edited by Orlando Frazão, Ignacio del Villar, José Fabris, Yuan Gong
Laser Interactions with Materials: from Fundamentals to Applications
Edited by Bilal Gökce, Mihaela Filipescu, Stephan Barcikowski
Eliashberg theory at 60: Strong-coupling superconductivity and beyond
Edited by Victor Galitski, Leonid Levitov, Yuli Nazarov
New gold open access mirror journals in Physics and Astronomy
Same scope. Same editorial board. Same quality. Two journals.
Chaos, Solitons & Fractals
Journal of Computational Physics
Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
Optical Materials
The SCOAP3 Collaboration announces today that CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, as ‘host organization’ of SCOAP3 has signed contracts with 11 leading commercial and society publishers to extend this large-scale Open Access initiative for a 3rd three-year term, covering the years 2020-2022. With the conclusion of the formal contracts, SCOAP3 will continue supporting authors worldwide to publish their research Open Access at no cost or burden.Journal Metrics
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News
- New open access journal launches in 2019/2020:
- Chemical Physics Impact
- Announcement: From January 2021 Ultrasonics Sonochemistry will become an open access journal. Authors who publish in Ultrasonics Sonochemistry will be able to make their work immediately, permanently, and freely accessible.
- Singularities, Black Holes and Baby Universes: The Legacy of Stephen Hawking
- Scientists Spearhead Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and High Performance Computing for Cosmology
- Nobel Prize Physics 2018: Pioneering contributions Mourou and Strickland in Optics Communications
Awards
Scientific African wins the PROSE Award for Best New Journal in Science, Technology and Medicine
The Award for Best New Journal in Science, Technology and Medicine went to Scientific African. PROSE honors the best in professional and scholarly publishing, as judged by peer publishers, librarians, academics and medical professionals.
The awards were presented at the 44th annual PROSE Awards conference of the Association of American Publisher’s Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division in Washington, DC on February 18th 2020.
Congratulations to our authors and editors for creating outstanding content that demonstrates exceptional scholarship and have made a significant contribution to the field of Science, Technology and Medicine.
You can read all about the awards on the PROSE website
Scientific African
Editor-in-Chief Benji Gyampoh. Scientific African is owned by the Next Einstein Forum (NEF) and operated by the NEF Community of Scientists
Congratulations to Prof. Himanshu Jain, winner of the 2020 N.F. Mott Award
Professor Himanshu Jain, Materials Science and Engineering department, Lehigh University, Bethlemhem, PA, USA is the winner of the 2020 N.F Mott Award, the senior scientist award for outstanding contributions to the science of Non-Crystalline Solids over many years.
The Award consists of a certificate and USD 2,000 and is sponsored by the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids (JNCS).
Professor Himanshu Jain contributed extensively to understanding the electrical properties of glasses, chalcogenide glasses, bioactive glasses, and laser-induced crystallization. He stands among the twenty most prolific researchers of the glass community and is also one of the five most active authors of the JNCS
The N.F Mott Award was virtually presented on 21 September 2020 by the Editors and Publisher of the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
Other award news
- 2020 Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids
- Winner of the 2020 Frans Habraken Best Paper Award announced: Grazia Giuseppina Politano
- Kate Keahey, Editor in Chief of Software X, received the 2019 IEEE “Women in Service Computing” award
- Congratulation to the winners of the poster prizes at the ICASS 2019 conference, Pisa 17-20 June 2019
- Elsevier / JQSRT Award winners awarded at the 18th Electromagnetic and Light Scattering (ELS-XVIII) conference
- JQSRT Poynting and Viskanta awards presented at the 9th International Symposium on Radiative Transfer (RAD-19)
- Maria Antonietta Loi wins Physica Award 2018
- Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss win the 2017 Physics Nobel Prize
- Prof. Hans-Ulrich Güdel win the ICL 2017 Prize for Luminescence Research
