The ''Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical'' is a
peer-reviewed
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scientific journal
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published by IOP Publishing, the publishing branch of the
Institute of Physics
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It was founded in 1874 and has a worldwide ...
. It is part of the ''
Journal of Physics'' series and covers
theoretical physics
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focusing on sophisticated mathematical and computational techniques.
The journal is divided into six sections covering:
statistical physics
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;
chaotic and
complex systems
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;
mathematical physics
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;
quantum mechanics
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and
quantum information theory
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;
classical and
quantum field theory
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;
fluid
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and
plasma theory.
The
editor in chief is Joseph A Minahan (
Uppsala Universitet, Sweden). According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2023
impact factor
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The Impact Factor of a journa ...
of 2.0.
History
''Journal of Physics A'' was established in 1968 as one of the subdivisions of the earlier title, ''
Proceedings of the Physical Society'', established in 1874, the flagship journal of the
Physical Society of London. The Physical Society later became the Institute of Physics, the current publisher of the journal. Its papers began being made available electronically in 1991; by 2002, its entire back archive had been digitised, as the first step in a larger project to digitise all of the Institute's publishing archives.
Indexing
The journal is indexed in:
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Scopus
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Inspec
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Chemical Abstracts
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GeoRef
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INIS Atomindex
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Astrophysics Data System
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PASCAL
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Referativny Zhurnal''
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Zentralblatt MATH
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Science Citation Index and SciSearch
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Current Contents
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History
''Current Contents ...
/Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences''
See also
*''
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter''
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://iopscience.org/jphysa
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