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| Discipline | Physics |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Valery Rubakov |
| Publication details | |
Former names | Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk, Soviet Physics Uspekhi |
| History | 1918-present (in Russian); 1958-present (in English) |
| Publisher | IOP Publishing (Russia/United Kingdom) |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| 3.361 (2020) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Phys.-Uspekhi |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| CODEN | PHUSEY |
| ISSN | 1063-7869 (print) 1468-4780 (web) |
| LCCN | 93646146 |
| OCLC no. | 36334507 |
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Physics-Uspekhi is apeer-reviewedscientific journal. It is an English translation of theRussian journal of physics,Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk (Russian:Успехи физических наук,Advances in Physical Sciences) which was established in 1918.[1] The journal publishes long review papers which are intended to generalize and summarize previously published results, making them easier to use and to understand. The journal covers all topics of modern physics. The English version has existed since 1958, first under the nameSoviet Physics Uspekhi and after 1993 asPhysics-Uspekhi. The year 2008 marked the 90th birthday with a jubilee retrospective.[2]
The founder of the journal,Eduard Shpolsky, waseditor-in-chief from 1918 to his death in 1975.[1]Vitaly Ginzburg, connected with the journal since beforeWorld War II, was appointed editor-in-chief in 1998. In his 2006Nobel autobiography, Ginzburg called it "a good and useful journal" and credited its "maintenance of the highest level" to long-term editorial manager M. S. Aksentyeva.[3]
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to theJournal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020impact factor of 3.361.[4]