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Physics and Astronomy: Journals

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The University of Manchester Library provides access to a wide range of journals relating to Physics and Astronomy.

Peer-reviewed journal articles are evaluated and critiqued by researchers and experts in the field before being published. They are high quality academic sources of information.

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Nature Physics

Nature Physics publishes papers of the highest quality and significance in all areas of physics, pure and applied. The journal content reflects core physics disciplines, but is also open to a broad range of topics whose central theme falls within the bounds of physics. (Provided by Publisher.)

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Applied Physics Reviews

Applied Physics Reviews (APR) features articles on important and current topics in experimental or theoretical research in applied physics or applications of physics to other branches of science and engineering (Provided by Publisher).

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Nature Reviews Physics 

Nature Reviews Physics is an online-only journal publishing high-quality technical reference, review and commentary articles in all areas of fundamental and applied physics.

Topics covered in the journal include:
Atomic, molecular and optical physics
Biophysics
Condensed matter and materials physics
Fluid dynamics
General physics
Gravitation, cosmology and astrophysics
High-energy physics (particles and fields, accelerators and beams)
Mathematical physics
Networks
Nonlinear dynamics
Nuclear physics
Photonics
Physical chemistry
Plasma physics
Polymers and soft matter
Quantum mechanics, information and technologies
Software and data analysis
Statistical physics
Techniques and instrumentation
Physics and society, and history of physics (Provided by Publisher)

 

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Reviews of Modern Physics

Reviews of Modern Physics (RMP) is the world’s premier physics review journal and the most highly cited Physical Review publication. Written by leading international researchers, RMP’s in-depth essays provide outstanding coverage of a topic and give context and background for current research trends.

RMP covers the full range of applied, fundamental, and interdisciplinary physics research topics:

  • Atomic, molecular, and optical physics
  • Biological physics
  • Chemical physics
  • Condensed matter physics
  • Soft matter physics
  • Plasma physics and fusion
  • Particle-beam physics
  • Nuclear physics
  • High-energy physics, particles and fields
  • Astrophysics
  • General physics
  • Mathematical physics
  • Applications of physics
  • Quantum information
  • Computational physics
  • Physics of climate

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The University of Manchester Library provides full access to articles published in this journal from 1929 (Volume 1, Issue 1) to the present day.

Physics & Astronomy e-journals

Search for journal articles using Library Search (you can do keyword searches for either the title of a journal or an article).

 

Relevant journals relating to Physics and Astronomy:

 

The above list was compiled using Scopus and comprises a selection of the top journals relating to 'General Physics And Astronomy' and 'Physics And Astronomy (Miscellaneous)' based on Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) ranking. For more information on the SNIP ranking metric, please visit Elsevier's Measuring a Journal's Impact page.

 

You can also browse a selection of the Physics and Astronomy related journals we subscribe to using Browzine.

 

Browzine Physics

 

Browzine Astronomy and Space Science

Google Scholar

Google Scholar can be a useful tool to use when searching for journal articles. However, it's important to be aware that Google Scholar will return results for articles, journals and other resources that the Library doesn't necessarily subscribe to and which you might not have free access to as a student at the University of Manchester.

Google Scholar Search

Library Access

In order to make it easier to identify and access content provided by the Library when searching Google (and without having to visit Library Search), we recommend that you download Library AccessThis is a useful browser extension that will pop-up and notify you when you are on a journal or website that the Library has a subscription for. 

Library Access

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