Abbreviated title (ISO 4) Phys. Rev. B, PRB Edited by Laurens W. Molenkamp | Language English | |
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Former names Physical Review, Physical Review B: Condensed Matter Physics Discipline condensed matter physics
materials physics Publisher American Physical Society (United States) | ||
Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (also known as PRB) is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal, published by the American Physical Society (APS). The Editor of PRB is Laurens W. Molenkamp. It is part of the Physical Review family of journals. The current acting Editor in Chief is Dan T. Kulp. PRB currently publishes over 4500 papers a year, making it one of the largest physics journals in the world. According to the Journal Citation Reports, PRB's most recent impact factors have been 3.664 for 2013, 3.736 for 2014 and 3.718 for 2015.
Contents
Scope
The focus of this journal is on new results in condensed matter physics, which includes a wide variety of subject areas, such as semiconductors, superconductivity, magnetism, structure, phase transitions, ferroelectrics, nonordered systems, liquids, quantum solids, superfluidity, electronic structure, photonic crystals, mesoscopic systems, surfaces, clusters, fullerenes, graphene, nanoscience, etc.
History
PRB was created in 1970 by the split of the original Physical Review (founded in 1893) into four parts (A,B,C,D), based on subject matter. Peter D. Adams was the Editor from inception until 2012 when Laurens W. Molenkamp took over. Anthony M. Begley is currently the Managing Editor.
Features
PRB has a reputation among professional physicists for publishing useful, comprehensive long papers in physics. It also contains short (four page) papers in its Rapid Communications section, designed for research important enough to deserve special handling and speedy publication. The journal can be searched for free via PROLA. Titles and abstracts can be viewed for free but a journal subscription is needed to read the full text of papers. PRB and the other APS journals are available entirely for free at many US public libraries. PRB is rare among physics journals in that it has a staff of 12 full-time professional editors and does not employ the more common model of using part-time editors who are active researchers. The journal is available in print format (at University libraries) but the archival version is the online one. Authors can pay extra charges to make their papers open access. Such papers are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (CC-BY), the most permissive of the CC licenses, which permits authors and others to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work, provided that proper credit is given. A small percentage of the PRB papers published are chosen (highlighted) by the PRB editors to be Editors' Suggestions, as seen at http://prb.aps.org. Artistic images from papers in the journal are published as a feature named "Kaleidoscope" at http://prb.aps.org/kaleidoscope.
Abstracting and Indexing
Physical Review B is indexed in the following bibliographic databases: