Medical Physics (journal)

Medical Physics is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on medical physics.^[1] The first issue was published in January 1974. Medical Physics is an official journal of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, the Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists, the Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine and the International Organization for Medical Physics. The editor-in-chief is John M. Boone (UC Davis Medical Center).^[2]

Medical Physics

Discipline	Physics, medicine
Language	English
Edited by	John M. Boone
Publication details
History	1974–present
Publisher	Wiley (US)
Frequency	Monthly
Open access	Hybrid
Impact factor	4.506 (2021)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Med. Phys.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	MPHYA6
ISSN	0094-2405 (print) 2473-4209 (web)
LCCN	74645246
OCLC no.	01794379
Links
Journal homepage

In 2013, the journal announced that it was changing from a traditional to a hybrid open-access format.^[3] In 2017, the journal transferred from being published by the American Institute of Physics to Wiley.^[4]

Abstracting and indexing

Medical Physics is indexed in:

• Chemical Abstracts Service^[5]
• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed^[6]
• Scopus^[7]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 4.506, ranking it 44th out of 136 journals in the category "Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging".^[8]