Physical Review B

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| title = Physical Review B

| cover = Image of front cover of the journal Physical Review B.jpg

| editor = Stephen E. Nagler

| discipline = condensed matter physics
materials physics

| peer-reviewed =

| language = English

| formernames = Physical Review, Physical Review B: Condensed Matter Physics

| abbreviation = Phys. Rev. B

| publisher = American Physical Society

| country = United States

| frequency = 4 issues per month

| history = 1970 to present

| openaccess = Partial

| license =

| impact = 3.908

| impact-year = 2021

| website = http://journals.aps.org/prb/

| link1 = http://journals.aps.org/prb/issues

| link1-name = Archives

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| CODEN = PRBMDO

| ISSN = 2469-9950

| eISSN = 2469-9969

}}

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 Stephen E. Nagler. It is part of the Physical Review family of journals.[http://publish.aps.org/about] About the Physical Review Journals The current Editor in Chief is Randall Kamien. PRB currently publishes over 4500 papers a year, making it one of the largest physics journals in the world.{{cite web | title = About Physical Review B | url = http://prb.aps.org/about | publisher = American Physical Society | access-date = 2016-06-20}}[http://www.eigenfactor.org/rankings.php?bsearch=PHYSICAL+REVIEW+B&searchby=journal&orderby=eigenfactor] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508201007/http://www.eigenfactor.org/rankings.php/?bsearch=PHYSICAL%20REVIEW%20B&searchby=journal&orderby=eigenfactor |date=8 May 2021 }} PRB ranked by the Eigenfactor, University of Washington, 2012

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 when the original Physical Review (founded in 1893) was subdivided into Physical Review A, B, C, and D, based on subject matter.

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| title = Society History

| publisher = American Physical Society

| url = http://www.aps.org/about/history/index.cfm

}} Peter D. Adams was the Editor from inception until 2012 when Laurens W. Molenkamp took over. In 2023 Stephen E. Nagler replaced Molenkamp.{{cite web |title=Dr. Stephen Nagler Named Lead Editor of Physical Review B |url=https://journals.aps.org/prb/edannounce/Dr.-Stephen-Nagler-Named-Lead-Editor-of-Physical-Review-B |website=Physical Review B |date=16 December 2022 |publisher=American Physical Society |access-date=13 March 2023}} 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 Letters section, previously named Rapid Communications,{{cite journal |last1=Randall Kamien |first1=Michael |title=Editorial: Eight Journals Introduce Letters |journal=Physical Review B |date=2021 |volume=103 |issue=9 |pages=090001 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevB.103.090001 |bibcode=2021PhRvB.103i0001T |doi-access=free }} designed for research important enough to deserve special handling and speedy publication. The journal can be searched for free via PROLA.[https://journals.aps.org/archive/] PROLA (Physical Review Online Archive) Titles and abstracts can be freely viewed but a journal subscription is needed to read the full text of papers. PRB and the other APS journals are available entirely free at many US public libraries.{{cite web| title = Announcement of public library program| publisher = American Physical Society| url = http://prb.aps.org/public-access-announcement| date = 28 July 2010}}

PRB is rare among physics journals in that it has a staff of 12 full-time professional editors,[http://prb.aps.org/staff] Physical Review B Staff 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.[http://publish.aps.org/edannounce/CC-launch-press-release] APS Open Access announcement, American Physical Society, 15 February 2011 Such papers are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (CC-BY),[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/] Details of Creative Commons license 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) as an [https://journals.aps.org/prb/highlights Editors' Suggestions].[http://prb.aps.org/edannounce/PhysRevB.77.130001] Announcement of PRB Editors' Suggestions, American Physical Society, 1 April 2008 Artistic images from papers in the journal are published as a feature named [https://journals.aps.org/prb/kaleidoscope Kaleidoscope].{{cite web |title=New Feature: PRB Kaleidoscope |url=http://prb.aps.org/node/1675 |publisher=American Physical Society |access-date=24 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080707143728/http://prb.aps.org/node/1675 |archive-date=7 July 2008 |date=6 March 2008}}