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.

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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.

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New gold open access mirror journals in Physics and Astronomy

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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.

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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.

• Fast publication in Physics
• Fast publication in Condensed Matter Physics
• Fast Publication in Nuclear and High Energy Physics
• Fast Publication in Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Aerospace Engineering

News

• Nobel Prize Physics 2018: Pioneering contributions Mourou and Strickland in Optics Communications
• Physics workshops in collaboration with the World Science Festival, 30 - 31 May 2018
• Scientists pioneer use of deep learning for real-time gravitational wave discovery
• Modelling rapidly changing in-host HIV infections
• Could searching for moons lead us to extraterrestrial civilisations?
• When pesticides make pest infestations worse

Article Selection

• Best of Physics
• International Day of Light 2018
• Article Selection on Women in Physics 2018
• Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Marie Curie
• Celebrating Dark Matter Day
• Earth Day 2017

Awards

• 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

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