Physical Review Letters

Short description: Academic journal in physics

Physical Review Letters |Subject |Discipline}}| Physics

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Language| English
Edited by|

* Rafael Fernandes
* Robert Garisto
* Abhishek Agarwal
* Serena Dalena
* Samindranath Mitra

Publication details
History| 1958–present
Publisher|

American Physical Society (United States)

Frequency| Weekly

Open access

| partial
License| CC-BY 4.0 International license

Impact factor

| 9.0 (2024)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4 (alt) * Bluebook (alt1 * alt2)
NLM (alt) * MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4| Phys. Rev. Lett.
Indexing
CODEN * JSTOR (alt) * LCCN (alt)
MIAR * NLM (alt) * Scopus
CODEN| PRLTAO
ISSN| 0031-9007 (print)
1079-7114 (web)

LCCN| 59037543
OCLC no.| 1715834

CD-ROM issue

ISSN| 1092-0145

Links

* Journal homepage
* Archives

Physical Review Letters (PRL), established in 1958, is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal that is published 52 times per year by the American Physical Society. The journal is considered one of the most prestigious in the field of physics. Over a quarter of Physics Nobel Prize-winning papers between 1995 and 2017 were published in it.[1]

PRL is published both online and as a print journal. Its focus is on short articles ("letters") for a broad readership.[2] The Lead Editor (main science advisor) is Rafael Fernandes. The Chief Editor (responsible for the journal content[3]), is Robert Garisto.[4][5]

## Contents

* 1 History
* 1.1 Notable articles
* 2 Scope
* 3 Journal ranking summary
* 4 Abstracting, indexing, and impact factor
* 5 See also
* 6 References
* 7 External links

## History

The journal was created in 1958, by Samuel Goudsmit, who was then the editor of Physical Review, the American Physical Society's primary journal. He turned the Letters to the Editor section of Physical Review into a new standalone flagship journal: Physical Review Letters. It was the first journal intended for the rapid publication of short articles, a format that eventually became popular in many other fields.[6]

### Notable articles

* 1964 PRL symmetry breaking papers
* First report of a functional scanning tunneling microscope (1982)[7]
* Invention of the atomic force microscope (1986)[8]
* First direct observation of gravitational waves (2016)[9]
* A list of PRLs cited for recent Nobel prizes.

## Scope

PRL covers all areas of physics and related topics. The journal is divided into the following sections:[4]

* Quantum Information, Science, and Technology
* Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation
* Particles and Fields
* Nuclear Physics
* Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
* Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate
* Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams
* Condensed Matter and Materials
* Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems
* Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, Biological Physics

A section before the table of contents highlights a small number of particularly notable articles in each edition.[10][11]

## Journal ranking summary

The following table presents the most recent journal ranking metrics for Physical Review Letters based on data from Scopus and Web of Science categories.

Journal ranking summary (2023) [12]

Source | Category | Rank | Percentile | Quartile

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Scopus | General Physics and Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy | 13/243 | 94.65 | Q1
Web of Science (IF) | Physics, Multidisciplinary | 8/110 | 93.20 | Q1
Web of Science (JCI) | Physics, Multidisciplinary | 8/110 | 92.73 | Q1

## Abstracting, indexing, and impact factor

Physical Review Letters is indexed in the following bibliographic databases:[4]

* Chemical Abstracts
* Computer & Control Abstracts
* Current Physics Index
* Electrical & Electronics Index
* Energy Research Abstracts
* GeoRef
* INSPEC
* International Aerospace Abstracts
* Mathematical Reviews
* Medline
* Metals Abstracts
* Nuclear Science Abstracts
* Physics Abstracts
* PubSCIENCE
* SPIN
* World Aluminum Abstracts

## See also

* Science
* Nature
* Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

## References

1. ↑ Conroy, Gemma (2020-01-16). "These four journals publish the most Nobel Prize-winning papers in physics" (in en). https://www.nature.com/nature-index/news/journals-publish-most-nobel-prize-winning-research-papers-physics.
2. ↑ Garisto, Robert; Chaté, Hugues (2024-07-19). "Editorial: Whither Letters?" (in en-US). Physical Review Letters 133 (3). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.030001. ISSN 0031-9007. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.030001.
3. ↑ "Editorial Roles in the Physical Review Journals" (in en-US). Physical Review Journals. 2023-11-07. https://journals.aps.org/editorial-roles.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "About Physical Review Letters". American Physical Society. https://journals.aps.org/prl/about.
5. ↑ "Physical Review Letters Staff". American Physical Society. 2007-12-03. https://journals.aps.org/prl/staff.
6. ↑ Bederson, Benjamin (2008) (in en). Samuel Abraham Goudsmit: a Biographical Memoir. National Academy of Sciences. https://www.nasonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/goudsmit-samuel.pdf.
7. ↑ Binnig, G.; Rohrer, H.; Gerber, Ch.; Weibel, E. (1982-07-05). "Surface Studies by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy" (in en). Physical Review Letters 49 (1): 57–61. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.49.57. ISSN 0031-9007. Bibcode: 1982PhRvL..49...57B. https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.49.57.
8. ↑ Binnig, G.; Quate, C. F.; Gerber, Ch. (1986-03-03). "Atomic Force Microscope" (in en). Physical Review Letters 56 (9): 930–933. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.930. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 10033323. Bibcode: 1986PhRvL..56..930B. https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.930.
9. ↑ Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Abernathy, M. R.; Acernese, F.; Ackley, K.; Adams, C.; Adams, T. et al. (2016-02-11). "Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger" (in en). Physical Review Letters 116 (6). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 26918975. Bibcode: 2016PhRvL.116f1102A. https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102.
10. ↑ "Table of Contents". Physical Review Letters 102 (17). 1 May 2009. https://journals.aps.org/prl/issues/102/17.
11. ↑ "Table of Contents". Physical Review Letters 105 (1). 2 July 2010. https://journals.aps.org/prl/issues/105/1.
12. ↑ JRank: Physical Review Letters – https://jrank.net/journals/phys-rev-lett/metrics

## External links

* Official website
* All Volumes and Issues
* Collections of articles
* 50th Anniversary Milestone Papers
* "Physics"

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