''EPL'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by EDP Sciences,

IOP Publishing IOP Publishing (previously Institute of Physics Publishing) is the publishing company of the Institute of Physics. It provides publications through which scientific research is distributed worldwide, including journals, community websites, maga ...

and the

Italian Physical Society The (SIF) or Italian Physical Society was founded in 1897 and is a non-profit organization whose aim is to promote, encourage, protect the study and the progress of physics in Italy and in the world. It is associated with the journal series '' Nuo ...

on behalf of the European Physical Society and 17 other European physical societies. Prior to 1 January 2007 it was known as ''Europhysics Letters''.

Scope

''EPL'' publishes original letters that communicates new results and findings that merit rapid publication in all areas of physics. ''EPL'' also publishes comments on letters previously published in the journal.

History

''Europhysics Letters'' was founded in 1986 by the European Physical Society (EPS),

Société Française de Physique The Société Française de Physique (SFP), or the French Physical Society, is the main professional society of French physicists. It was founded in 1873 by Charles Joseph d'Almeida. History The French Physical Society is a state-approved non-p ...

(SFP) and its subsidiary EDP Sciences, the Società Italiana di Fisica (SIF) and the Institute of Physics (IOP). The new journal incorporated '' Lettere al Nuovo Cimento'' and '' Journal de Physique: Lettres'' and was published by EPS, EDP Sciences and SIF until 2006. ''EPL'' is now published under the scientific policy and control of the EPS by EDP Sciences, IOP Publishing and SIF for a partnership of 17 European physical societies (the

EPL Association EPL may refer to: Computing * Easy Programming Language * Eclipse Public License * Eltron Programming Language, a control language for various computer printers * Ethernet Powerlink, an Ethernet protocol * Early PL/I, a PL/I#Multics PL/I and deriv ...

Abstracting, indexing, and impact factor

According to the ''

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'', the journal had a 2014

impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as ...

of 2.095. It is indexed in the following bibliographic databases: * Aerospace & High Technology *

Chemical Abstracts CAS (formerly Chemical Abstracts Service) is a division of the American Chemical Society. It is a source of chemical information. CAS is located in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Print periodicals ''Chemical Abstracts'' is a periodical index tha ...

* Environmental Science and Pollution Management * GeoRef *

INIS INIS may refer to: *International Nuclear Information System *Iraqi National Intelligence Service *iNiS Corporation *Institut national de l'image et du son * Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service *INIS character set See also * * Innis (d ...

* Inspec *

Astrophysics Data System The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is an online database of over 16 million astronomy and physics papers from both peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed sources. Abstracts are available free online for almost all articles, and full scanned ...

Scopus Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation database launched in 2004. Scopus covers nearly 36,377 titles (22,794 active titles and 13,583 inactive titles) from approximately 11,678 publishers, of which 34,346 are peer-reviewed journals in top-l ...

SPIRES The Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System (SPIRES) is a database management system developed by Stanford University. It is used by universities, colleges and research institutions. The first website in North America was created to allow re ...

* Web of Science

External links

References

{{Reflist Physics journals English-language journals Biweekly journals Publications established in 1986 EDP Sciences academic journals IOP Publishing academic journals Italian Physical Society academic journals European Physical Society