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Physical Review Letters

Journal Abbreviation: PHYS REV LETT
Journal ISSN: 0031-9007

About Physical Review Letters

    In the late 1950"s, Editor Sam Goudsmit decided to collect the Letters to the Editor of the Physical Review into a new standalone journal entitled Physical Review Letters (PRL). PRL featured short, important papers from all branches of physics, and quickly assumed a place among the most prestigious publications in any scientific discipline. Today PRL is the world"s foremost physics letters journal, providing rapid publication of short reports of significant fundamental research in all fields of physics. International in scope, the journal provides its diverse readership with weekly coverage of major advances in physics and cross disciplinary developments.
Year Impact Factor (IF) Total Articles Total Cites
2024 (2025 update) 9.0 - 518699
2023 8.1 - -
2022 8.6 - 492874
2021 9.185 - 515735
2020 9.161 2743 490021
2019 8.385 2644 443084
2018 9.227 2781 448064
2017 8.839 2487 432843
2016 8.462 2333 427669
2015 7.645 2500 394146
2014 7.512 2707 387635
2013 7.728 3555 378568
2012 7.943 3789 362185
2011 7.370 3229 335444

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