Physical Review B (PRB) is the world’s largest dedicated physics journal, publishing approximately 100 new, high-quality papers each week. The most highly cited journal in condensed matter physics, PRB provides outstanding depth and breadth of coverage, combined with unrivaled context and background for ongoing research by scientists worldwide.
Since 1970, PRB has provided an authoritative venue for high-quality work in established and emerging topics in condensed matter research, making it an essential resource for the field. PRB coordinates with other members of the Physical Review family of journals to serve new subspecialties as they develop.
PRB publishes detailed research articles as well as Letters, which are short accessible papers of particular importance. The journal has a flexible approach to article lengths and welcomes submission of longer papers that provide depth and authority in their subject areas.
Like all of the journals in the Physical Review family, PRB is shaped by researchers to serve the research community. This commitment ensures that its mission and standards prioritize the needs of researchers and authors, not commercial publishing interests. The journal is international, with approximately three-quarters of published articles originating from outside the U.S. Physical Review’s reach is far and wide, with authors and referees from over 130 countries.
PRB covers the full range of condensed matter, materials physics, and related subfields, including:
Submitted manuscripts should meet the following criteria:
At the core of APS's mission is a commitment to meeting the needs of physicists, a community that has been at the leading edge of open access. As a result, APS supports a variety of sustainable access options:
The PRB editorial board is a diverse, global group of active, distinguished scientists, selected by editors in consultation with APS units and appointed by the Executive Editor. Board members serve three-year terms. They may be requested by the editors to advise at any stage of the review process and they serve as adjudicators in formal appeals.
PRB is managed by a professional editorial team of Ph.D. scientists with extensive research experience at major academic institutions or research laboratories around the world. All editorial decisions are based on PRB’s acceptance criteria.
PRB authors gain high visibility and achieve broad dissemination of their work in the world’s most cited condensed matter journal. PRB editors bring attention to outstanding research and elucidate its importance through a number of features:
All Physical Review journals, including Reviews of Modern Physics, follow a common set of Editorial Policies and Practices, which cover Editorial Oversight and Decision Making, Authorship, Submissions, Resubmissions, and Transfers, Peer Review, Ethics and Research Integrity, Post Publication, and Open Access and Publications Rights.
PRB is published electronically one article at a time. The print version of the journal is published monthly in two sections, B1 and B15. Articles are identified by volume number and a six digit article number, for example, Phys. Rev. B 63, 012509 (2001).
In addition to publishing Letters, PRB editors accelerate the review process for a small number of manuscripts that report particularly important or groundbreaking research.