Contemporary Physics

Contemporary Physics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing introductory articles on important recent developments in physics. Editorial screening and peer review is carried out by members of the editorial board.

Volume Number: 51. Published By: Taylor & Francis
Discipline	Physics
Language	English
Edited by	Peter Knight (scientist)
Publication details
History	1959–present
Publisher	Taylor & Francis (United Kingdom)
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	5.185 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Contemp. Phys.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0010-7514 (print) 1366-5812 (web)
Links
Journal homepage Table of contents, Taylor & Francis Online

Overview

Contemporary Physics has been published by Taylor & Francis since 1959 and publishes four issues per year. The subjects covered by this journal are: astrophysics, atomic and nuclear physics, chemical physics, computational physics, condensed matter physics, environmental physics, experimental physics, general physics, particle & high energy physics, plasma physics, space science, and theoretical physics.^{[citation needed]}

Aims

The journal publishes introductory review articles on a range of recent developments in physics and intends to be of particular use to undergraduates, teachers and lecturers, and those starting postgraduate studies. Contemporary Physics also contains a major section devoted to standard book reviews and essay reviews which review books in the context of the general aspects of a field which have a wide appeal.^[1]

Abstracting and indexing

According to the Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 5.185.^[2] Contemporary Physics is abstracted and indexed in Inspec, EBSCO Publishing, Current Contents, Current Mathematical Publications, Mathematical Reviews, SciSearch, and SciBase.

Notable authors

Contemporary Physics has attracted articles from a number of prominent scientists, including:

• Jim Al-Khalili, OBE^[3]
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, FRS^[4]
• Leon Cooper^[5]
• Otto Robert Frisch, FRS^[6]
• Vitaly Ginzburg, FRS^[7]
• Stephen Hawking, CBE, FRS^[8]
• Sir Peter Knight, FRS (current Editor-in-Chief) ^[9][10]
• Sir Anthony James Leggett, KBE, FRS^[11]
• Sir Nevill Francis Mott, FRS^[12]
• Sir John Pendry, FRS FInstP^[13]
• Abdus Salam, KBE^[14]
• Arthur Leonard Schawlow^[15]