Journals in Physics and Astronomy
Your source of information for publishing in our physics journals.
At Elsevier our goal is simple: to ensure researchers receive the support they need. With over 100 years of experience in publishing high-quality Physics journals,we have learned to recognize the specific needs of the Physics community and how to help you excel and to build your career. How do we do this? We publish 79 Physics journals in various fields to enable publication in various disciplines, to encourage communication within and across disciplines and to further develop new interdisciplinary fields.
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.
To ensure our journal standards remain high, we have invited top Editors from our renowned, reputable journals onto the board. You as an author benefit from their expert input, while being able to fulfil your gold OA needs.
Focus on Journals in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Over 20 journals covering space research, astronomy and astrophysics.
Rethink the way you publish
Writing, submitting and publishing your research takes up a lot of time and energy. We develop faster, more effective and truly innovative solutions to improve the manuscript submission and peer review process.
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Share your research data including software, hardware, methods and protocols by publishing in one of Elsevier’s Research Elements journals
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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.
Journal of Computational Physics
Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
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
The academic community has demanded more choice, accuracy and insight into journal performance, and Elsevier has responded with new metrics. CiteScore is one of these new metrics and is a simple way of measuring the citation impact of sources, such as journals.
Fast publication
Elsevier aims to offer you the fastest possible speed of publication, without compromising on the quality of our peer-review process. This is a promise the editorial and publishing teams work hard to keep.
News
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Awards
Kate Keahey, Editor in Chief of Software X, received the 2019 IEEE “Women in Service Computing” award
Service computing is a cross-disciplinary area that bridges the gap between business and IT services; its scope includes web services, cloud computing, enabling infrastructures, and applications using Web services.
The award, presented by the IEEE Technical Committee on Services Computing (TCSVC), recognizes Kate's technical contributions in cloud computing and her leadership in providing services to the scientific computing community. To learn more about Kate’s award and her work, see the dedicated webpage of the Argonne National Laboratory.
Congratulations Kate!
Other news
- 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