About Physical Review A
Physical Review A (PRA) provides a dependable resource of worldwide developments in the rapidly evolving area of atomic, molecular, and optical physics and related fundamental concepts. The journal contains articles on quantum mechanics including quantum information theory, atomic and molecular structure and dynamics, collisions and interactions (including
interactions with surfaces and solids), clusters (including fullerenes), atomic
and molecular processes in external fields, matter waves (including Bose-Einstein condensation), and optics, both quantum and classical.
2011 JCR Data
Impact Factor: 2.878
5-Year Impact Factor: 2.612
Total Cites: 86,163
Immediacy Index: 0.840
Cited Half-life: 8.2
2011 Eigenfactor® Metrics
Eigenfactor® Score: 0.21963
Article Influence® Score: 0.977
2012 Publication Numbers
Number of articles: 2858
Number of pages: 21,922
2013 Publication Projections
Number of articles: 2900
Number of pages: 22,400
2013 Publication Frequency
Volumes 87, 88 (12 issues)
2013 Subscription Rates
APS Members
Institutional Subscriptions
2012 CD-ROM Edition
$60 per disk with journal subscription
ISSN
1050-2947 (print)
1094-1622 (online)
1538-4446 (CD-Rom)
Article Number
PRA 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. A 61, 012013 (2000). 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 versions. More information.
Abstracting/Indexing Includes
Computer & Control Abstracts, Current Physics Index, Electrical & Electronics Index, INSPEC, Physics Abstracts, PubSCIENCE.
Features for Authors
- Free Color Online - There is no charge for color figures in our online journals. (For print journals there is an additional per figure charge. More information.)
- 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.
- Online Manuscript Submission - Online submission of manuscripts via the web.
- Online Manuscript Status Check - The Author Status Inquiry System (ASIS) allows authors of manuscripts under consideration by our journals to obtain immediate information on the status of their papers electronically.
- For papers that have been accepted for publication information about their status in the production process is available via a service maintained by the production vendor. A link to this service is provided as part of the information provided by ASIS for such papers.
- Native Language Author Name Display - Chinese, Japanese, and Korean authors can choose to have their names displayed in their own language.
- Forms and Memos - Direct access to journal-related forms and memos.
Features for Readers
- Email ToC Alerts - Receive table of contents email alerts as new journal issues are complete.
- RSS Feeds - Subscribe to a variety of Editor-selected cross-journal feeds as well as individual journal RSS feeds.
- Accepted Papers Lists - Access listings of recently accepted papers in advance of publication
- Single Article Purchases - Nonsubscribers can purchase journal articles in PDF format directly from links on the abstract page.
- Article Packs - For APS members, Article Packs allow flexible online access to key research articles spanning all of Physical Review.
- Free Access to Some Content:
- Browsing the Tables of Contents (PDF and HTML), viewing abstracts, or searching for articles does not require a subscription.
- 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.
