About Physical Review B

Physical Review B is the largest and most comprehensive international journal specializing in condensed matter and materials physics, publishing important papers on a wide range of topics. We have an impact factor of 3.691 (2011) and are ranked number one in total citations in condensed matter physics.^* The editors of PRB are primarily full-time staff at the Ridge, New York office on Long Island, who are dedicated to managing a fair and thorough review process. Others, including active researchers and former Ridge staff, work remotely from points around the globe. We have high standards for the quality of papers we publish and for the referees that help us. Our Rapid Communications section contains four-page papers of the highest caliber that are considered by the editors to be of sufficient importance to warrant the special and priority handling afforded to papers submitted there. We are the pre-eminent source for detailed comprehensive regular articles that are the mainstay of scientific communication. Please email feedback@aps.org if you have suggestions or feedback on how PRB operates or our web pages. For manuscript-related comments or queries, please email prb@aps.org.

As a service to both our readers and authors, we list a small number of papers published in PRB that the editors and referees find of particular interest, importance, or clarity. These Editors' Suggestion papers are marked with a special icon that contains the printer's mark that appeared on the covers of all sections of the Physical Review until about a decade ago.

PRB appears monthly in two sections, B1 and B15; each section is further divided into two parts.

B1: Structure, phase transitions, ferroelectrics, nonordered systems, liquids, quantum solids, magnetism, superconductivity, superfluidity

B15: Electronic structure, photonic crystals, semiconductors, mesoscopic systems, surfaces, clusters, fullerenes, graphene, nanoscience

^*2011 SCI Journal Citations Reports, Institute for Scientific Information

2011 JCR Data

Impact Factor: 3.691
5-Year Impact Factor: 3.405
Total Cites: 278,680
Immediacy Index: 0.889
Cited Half-life: 8.8

2011 Eigenfactor® Metrics

Eigenfactor® Score: 0.75610
Article Influence® Score: 1.426

2012 Publication Numbers

Number of articles: 5819
Number of pages: 45,612

2013 Publication Projections

Number of articles: 5900
Number of pages: 47,500

2013 Publication Frequency

Volumes 87, 88 (48 issues)

2013 Subscription Rates

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2012 and 2013 CD-ROM Editions

CD-ROMs are available with a paid journal subscription.

ISSN

1098-0121 (print)
1550-235X (online)
1538-4489 (CD-Rom)

Article Number

PRB is published electronically one article at a time. Articles are identified by volume number and a six-digit article number (instead of volume and page number), for example, Phys. Rev. B 63, 012509 (2001). This format allows articles to be fully citable as soon as they are published electronically, while maintaining the same identifier for both the electronic and print version. More information.

Abstracting/Indexing

Abstract Bulletin of the Institute of Paper Chemistry, Chemical Abstracts, Computer & Control Abstracts, Current Physics Index, Electrical & Electronics Index, Energy Research Abstracts, GeoRef, INSPEC, International Aerospace Abstracts, Mathematical Reviews, Metals Abstracts, Nuclear Science Abstracts, Physics Abstracts, World Aluminum Abstracts.

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  • Open Access - Authors of accepted manuscripts may choose to pay an article-processing charge whereby their work is made freely available, i.e., available to all readers at no cost and without a subscription, upon publication. Such articles 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.