Physical Review Letters

*Physical Review Letters*
Discipline	Physics
Language	English
Edited by	Hugues Chaté; Robert Garisto; Samindranath Mitra;
Publication details
History	1958–present
Publisher	American Physical Society (United States)
Frequency	Weekly
Open access	partial
Impact factor	8.6 (2022)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Phys. Rev. Lett.
Indexing;
CODEN	PRLTAO
ISSN	0031-9007 (print); 1079-7114 (web);
LCCN	59037543
OCLC no.	1715834
	CD-ROM issue
ISSN	1092-0145;
Links
	Journal homepage; Archives;

Physical Review Letters (PRL), established in 1958, is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal that is published 52 times per year by the American Physical Society. As also confirmed by various measurement standards, which include the Journal Citation Reports impact factor and the journal h-index proposed by Google Scholar, many physicists and other scientists consider Physical Review Letters to be one of the most prestigious journals in the field of physics.^[1]^[2]^[3]

PRL is published as a print journal, and is in electronic format, online and CD-ROM. Its focus is rapid dissemination of significant, or notable, results of fundamental research on all topics related to all fields of physics. This is accomplished by rapid publication of short reports, called "Letters". Papers are published and available electronically one article at a time. When published in such a manner, the paper is available to be cited by other work. The Lead Editor is Hugues Chaté. The Managing Editor is Robert Garisto.^[1]^[4]

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^ Bollen, J.; Rodriguez, M. A.; Van de Sompel, H. (2006). "Journal Status". Scientometrics. 69 (3): 669–87. arXiv:cs/0601030. doi:10.1007/s11192-006-0176-z. S2CID 8572274. The Prestigious Journal category reveals a collection of highly esteemed Physics journals: Journal of Applied Physics, Physical Review E, Physical Review Letters, and the Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials to name a few.
^ "English - Google Scholar Metrics". Google Scholar. 2015. Retrieved 18 January 2015. According to Google Scholar, PRL is the journal with the 9th journal h-index among all scientific journals
^ "Physical Review Letters Staff". American Physical Society. 2007-12-03. Retrieved 2010-07-09.

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[bollen2006-2] Bollen, J.; Rodriguez, M. A.; Van de Sompel, H. (2006). "Journal Status". Scientometrics. 69 (3): 669–87. arXiv:cs/0601030. doi:10.1007/s11192-006-0176-z. S2CID 8572274. The Prestigious Journal category reveals a collection of highly esteemed Physics journals: Journal of Applied Physics, Physical Review E, Physical Review Letters, and the Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials to name a few.

[goog-sc-3] "English - Google Scholar Metrics". Google Scholar. 2015. Retrieved 18 January 2015. According to Google Scholar, PRL is the journal with the 9th journal h-index among all scientific journals

[editor-4] "Physical Review Letters Staff". American Physical Society. 2007-12-03. Retrieved 2010-07-09.

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