Physical Review A

Physical Review A

Discipline	Atomic, molecular, and optical and quantum information
Language	English
Edited by	Jan M. Rost
Publication details
Former name(s)	Physical Review; Physical Review A, General Physics; Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics[1][2]
History	1970–present
Publisher	American Physical Society (United States)
Frequency	Monthly
Open access	Hybrid
Impact factor	2.971 (2021)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Phys. Rev. A
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
CODEN	PRAHC3
ISSN	2469-9926 (print) 2469-9934 (web)
LCCN	2015203968
OCLC no.	932205193
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Physical Review A (also known as PRA^[3][4][5]) is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Physical Society covering atomic, molecular, and optical physics and quantum information. As of 2021^[update] the editor was Jan M. Rost (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems).^[6]

History

In 1893, the Physical Review was established at Cornell University. It was taken over by the American Physical Society (formed in 1899) in 1913. In 1970, Physical Review was subdivided into Physical Review A, B, C, and D. At that time, section A was subtitled Physical Review A: General Physics. In 1990, a process was started to split this journal into two, resulting in the creation of Physical Review E in 1993. Hence, in 1993, Physical Review A changed its statement of scope to Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. In January 2007, the section of Physical Review E that published papers on classical optics was merged into Physical Review A, unifying the classical and quantum parts of optics into a single journal.^[7][8] In 2016, Physical Review A broadened its formal statement of coverage to explicitly include quantum information, which has been a section within the journal since 1998.^[9]

Rapid Communications

Physical Review A Rapid Communications was introduced in 1981 to provide a venue for quick publication of high-impact articles similar to Physical Review Letters, but for a more specialized audience. As of May 1, 2012, the editors have made the requirement for significance in Rapid articles more explicit.^[10] In addition, as of March 8, 2010, the editors have placed newly published Rapid Communications articles on rotation as highlights on the Physical Review A website, to give them more visibility.^[11]

Editors' Suggestions

In August 2013, Physical Review A started marking a few papers published in the journal that the editors found to be of particular interest, importance, or clarity as Editors' Suggestions to give them higher visibility.^[12]

Abstracting and indexing

As of 2020^[update] Physical Review journals were abstracted and indexed in:^[13]

• Chemical Abstracts Service/CASSI^[14]
• Inspec^[15]
• Clarivate Web of Science
• Google Scholar
• INSPIRE-HEP
• NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
• PubMed
• Scopus

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had an impact factor of 3.989 in 2020.^[16]

References

1. "APS Librarian Portal: ISSNs and CODENs". librarians.aps.org. Retrieved June 9, 2022. Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (1970-2015).
2. "American Physical Society". Portico. Retrieved June 9, 2022. Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics.
3. "About Physical Review A". Physical Review A. December 28, 2017. Retrieved June 9, 2022.
4. "ISSN Portal: Key-title Physical review, A". portal.issn.org. CIEPS/ISSN International Centre. Retrieved June 9, 2022.
5. "ISSN Portal: Key-title Physical review, A (Online)". portal.issn.org. CIEPS/ISSN International Centre. Retrieved June 9, 2022.
6. "APS Editorial Office". Physical Review A. American Physical Society. January 2021.
7. "About the Physical Review Journals". American Physical Society. July 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-13.
8. Drake, Gordon W. F. (July 1, 2010). "Editorial: 40th Anniversary of Physical Review A". American Physical Society. Retrieved 2010-07-13.
9. Anonymous (January 19, 2016). "Editorial: Adding Quantum Information to Our Statement of Coverage for Physical Review A". Physical Review A. 93 (1). American Physical Society: 010001. Bibcode:2016PhRvA..93a0001.. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.93.010001. OCLC 5978491007.
10. "Renewed Standards for Rapid Communications in Physical Review A". APS. May 2012. Retrieved 2012-12-20.
11. "Highlighting PRA Rapid Communications". APS. 8 March 2010. Retrieved 2012-12-20.
12. "Announcement: PRA Editors' Suggestions". American Physical Society. August 1, 2013.
13. "2020 PHYSICAL REVIEW JOURNALS CATALOG" (PDF). AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY. 2020.
14. "CAS Source Index". Chemical Abstracts Service. American Chemical Society. Archived from the original on 2010-02-11. Retrieved 2015-07-02.
15. "Inspec list of journals" (PDF). Inspec. Institution of Engineering and Technology. Retrieved 2015-07-02.
16. "Physical Review A". 2020 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2021.

External links

• Official website