*Please note that Philosophical Magazine Letters converted to a full Open Access journal from Volume 103 (2023). Previous volumes will continue to provide access through a Pay to Read model.
Philosophical Magazine Letters is the ‘daughter’ journal of the well-known and highly-respected Philosophical Magazine, which was first published in 1798.
The article types and subject areas covered by the journal have been expanded. The Editors welcome research articles as well as review articles within the broad scope of physics including important preliminary research findings for rapid communication, theoretical, experimental, applied and computational research.
Subject areas covered include the following:
Structure and properties of condensed matter, soft matter, polymers, fluids and plasmas
Materials science and solid-state physics
Optics and photonics
Atomic structure, defects and mechanical properties
Electron microscopy, STEM, XRD, synchrotron radiation, etc.
Quantum physics, quantum mechanics and quantum information
Applied physics
Nanoscale physics and technology
Thermodynamics, statistical mechanics and nonlinear systems
Molecular, atomic and nuclear physics
Biological, medical and chemical physics
Computational, mathematical and statistical physics
Instruments, instrumentation and technology
Digital twins of materials and processes
Structure-property relationships
Multiscale computational modelling
Theoretical / computational materials design
Machine learning / evolutionary computation
Density Functional Theory
Molecular dynamics
Fluid mechanics
Geophysics
History of physics
Readership: physicists, material scientists, and physical chemists within universities, research institutes and industry worldwide.
Peer Review Policy
All research articles published in Philosophical Magazine Letters benefit from having undergone initial editorial screening and rigorous anonymous single anonymized peer review. Submission of articles is online via Taylor & Francis’s Submission Portal and subsequent peer review is via ScholarOne Manuscripts.
Manuscripts are considered on the strict condition that they have not been published already, and that they are not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
By submitting a manuscript to Philosophical Magazine Letters authors are agreeing that CrossCheck software may be used to screen their work for unoriginal material.
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Please note, from 2023 the Print ISSN is not in active use as this journal is no longer published in print.
Journal metrics
Usage
66K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
1.2 (2023) Impact Factor
1.2 (2023) 5 year IF
2.6 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
0.472 (2023) SNIP
0.344 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
41 days avg. from submission to first
decision
41 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
81% acceptance rate
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quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it
should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to
support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside
other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its
readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In
addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and
never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year
and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of
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(find out why).
Usage:
the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users
of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the
nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles published in the
journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources
Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
Professor E.A. Davis: Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Co-Editors Professor D. Browne: University College Dublin, Ireland Professor M. Bououdina: Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia Professor N. Chakraborti: Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic
A. Bandyopadhyay – Washington State University, USA W. Cai - Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China D. Choudhuri - Department of Materials & Metallurgical Engineering, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA C. Ciobanu - Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Colorado School of Mines, USA A. Dutta - Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India E. Kabliman – Technical University of Munich, Germany D. Li - Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China R. Mathiesen - Department of Physics, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway R. Rana – R&D, Tata Steel, The Netherlands B. Šarler - Laboratory for Fluid Dynamics and Thermodynamics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia D. Szeliga – AGH University of Krakow, Poland
Advisory Board
L. Battezzati - University of Turin, Italy
E.P. Busso - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
P.C. Canfield - Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics, Iowa State University, IA, USA
P. Entel - University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
S. Forest - Centre des Matériaux, École des Mines de Paris, CNRS, PSL University, France
A.L. Greer - Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
L. Mañosa - University of Barcelona, Spain
A. Serra - Department de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
S.R. Shenoy - Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Trivandrum, India
X. Ren - National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
V. Vitek - University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
P. Weinberger - Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
Abstracting and indexing
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