About Physical Review E
Physical Review E (PRE), broad and interdisciplinary in scope, focuses on collective phenomena of many-body systems, with statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics as the central themes of the journal. Physical Review E publishes recent developments in biological and soft matter physics including granular materials, colloids, complex fluids, liquid crystals, and polymers. The journal covers fluid dynamics and plasma physics and includes sections on computational and interdisciplinary physics, for example, complex networks.
Journal Staff and Editorial Board
Journal Metrics
Impact Factor: 2.252
Impact Factor Without Self-cites: 1.738
5-Year Impact Factor: 2.233
Total Cites: 83,841
Immediacy Index: 0.547
Citable Items: 2,466
Cited Half-life: 9.0
Citing Half-life: >10.0
Eigenfactor® Score: 0.152580
Article Influence® Score: 0.828
2015 Number of Published Articles: 2,486
2015 Number of Published Pages: 23,120
2016 Projected Number of Articles: 2,345
2016 Projected Number of Pages: 21,215
2016 Publication Frequency
Volumes 93, 94 (12 issues)
Subscription Rates
The subscription rates for Physical Review E can be found here for APS Members and
Institutional Subscriptions. CD-ROMs are available with a paid journal subscription.
ISSN
2470-0045 (print)
2470-0053 (online)
1538-4519 (CD-Rom)
Article Number
PRE is published electronically one article at a time. Articles are identified by volume number and a six-digit article number (instead of volume and page number), for example, Phys. Rev. E 63, 016122 (2001). This format allows articles to be fully citable as soon as they are published electronically, while maintaining the same identifier for both the electronic and print version. More information.
Abstracting/Indexing Includes
Current Physics Index, INSPEC, Medline, Physics Abstracts.
Features for Authors
- Free Color Online - There is no charge for color figures in our online journals. (For print journals there is an additional per figure charge. More information.)
- Open Access - Authors of accepted manuscripts may choose to pay an article-processing charge whereby their work is made open access, i.e., available to all readers at no cost and without a subscription, upon publication. Such articles are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license (3.0 Unported or 4.0 International), the most permissive of the CC licenses, which permits authors and others to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work, provided that proper credit is given.
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Online Manuscript Submission - Online submission of manuscripts via the web.
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Native Language Author Name Display - Chinese, Japanese, and Korean authors can choose to have their names displayed in their own language.
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Forms and Memos - Direct access to journal-related forms and memos.
Features for Readers
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- Single Article Purchases - Nonsubscribers can purchase journal articles in PDF format directly from links on the abstract page.
- Article Packs - For APS members, Article Packs allow flexible online access to key research articles spanning all of Physical Review.
- Free Access to Some Content:
- Browsing the Tables of Contents (PDF and HTML), viewing abstracts, or searching for articles does not require a subscription.
- Open Access - Authors of accepted manuscripts may choose to pay an article-processing charge whereby their work is made open access, i.e., available to all readers at no cost and without a subscription, upon publication. Such articles are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license (3.0 Unported or 4.0 International), the most permissive of the CC licenses, which permits authors and others to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work, provided that proper credit is given.