Physical Review B

Physical Review B (PRB) is the world’s largest dedicated physics journal, publishing approximately 100 new, high-quality papers each week. The most highly cited journal in condensed matter physics, PRB provides outstanding depth and breadth of coverage, combined with unrivaled context and background for ongoing research by scientists worldwide.

Evolving with Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Since 1970, PRB has provided an authoritative venue for high-quality work in established and emerging topics in condensed matter research, making it an essential resource for the field. PRB coordinates with other members of the Physical Review family of journals to serve new subspecialties as they develop.

PRB publishes detailed research articles as well as Letters, which are short accessible papers of particular importance. The journal has a flexible approach to article lengths and welcomes submission of longer papers that provide depth and authority in their subject areas.

By Scientists, For Scientists

Like all of the journals in the Physical Review family, PRB is shaped by researchers to serve the research community. This commitment ensures that its mission and standards prioritize the needs of researchers and authors, not commercial publishing interests. The journal is international, with approximately three-quarters of published articles originating from outside the U.S. Physical Review’s reach is far and wide, with authors and referees from over 130 countries.

Editorial Board

The PRB editorial board is a diverse, global group of active, distinguished scientists, selected by editors in consultation with APS units and appointed by the Executive Editor. Board members serve three-year terms. They may be requested by the editors to advise at any stage of the review process and they serve as adjudicators in formal appeals.

Editorial Team

PRB is managed by a professional editorial team of Ph.D. scientists with extensive research experience at major academic institutions or research laboratories around the world. All editorial decisions are based on PRB’s acceptance criteria.

High Visibility and Impact

PRB authors gain high visibility and achieve broad dissemination of their work in the world’s most cited condensed matter journal. PRB editors bring attention to outstanding research and elucidate its importance through a number of features:

• Editors’ Suggestions: Selected papers are chosen as Editors’ Suggestions to direct readers to interesting, important, and well-written articles in areas of research beyond their usual interests. They garner, on average, more downloads and citations than other papers published in the journal and are more frequently covered by news outlets.
• Featured in Physics: Physics provides daily news and commentary about a selection of papers from the Physical Review collection, including those published in PRB, resulting in coverage such as Viewpoint: Quantum Jostling Proves Diverting for Electrons in a Metal and Viewpoint: How to Make Devices with Weyl Materials.
• Publicity: APS promotes press-worthy papers from its journals to journalists through a weekly Tip Sheet, resulting in frequent coverage in industry publications and the popular press, such as Nature Physics and Physics World.
• Social Media: Follow PRB on Twitter @PhysRevB.

Editorial and Publishing Policies

All Physical Review journals, including Reviews of Modern Physics, follow a common set of Editorial Policies and Practices, which cover Editorial Oversight and Decision Making, Authorship, Submissions, Resubmissions, and Transfers, Peer Review, Ethics and Research Integrity, Post Publication, and Open Access and Publications Rights.

PRB is published electronically one article at a time. The print version of the journal is published monthly in two sections, B1 and B15. Articles are identified by volume number and a six digit article number, for example, Phys. Rev. B 63, 012509 (2001).

In addition to publishing Letters, PRB editors accelerate the review process for a small number of manuscripts that report particularly important or groundbreaking research.