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Journals in Statistical physics and thermodynamics

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

  • ISSN: 0378-4371
  • 5 Year impact factor: 2.6
  • Impact factor: 2.8
Recognized by the European Physical SocietyPhysica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications publishes research in the field of statistical mechanics and its applications. Statistical mechanics sets out to explain the behaviour of macroscopic systems, or the large scale, by studying the statistical properties of the microscopic or nanoscopic constituents. Applications of the concepts and techniques of statistical mechanics include: applications to physical and physiochemical systems such as solids, liquids and gases, interfaces, glasses, colloids, complex fluids, polymers, complex networks, applications to economic and social systems (e.g. socio-economic networks, financial time series, agent based models, systemic risk, market dynamics, computational social science, science of science, evolutionary game theory, cultural and political complexity), and traffic and transportation (e.g. vehicular traffic, pedestrian and evacuation dynamics, network traffic, swarms and other forms of collective transport in biology, models of intracellular transport, self-driven particles), as well as biological systems (biological signalling and noise, biological fluctuations, cellular systems and biophysics); and other interdisciplinary applications such as artificial intelligence (e.g. deep learning, genetic algorithms or links between theory of information and thermodynamics/statistical physics.).Physica A does not publish research on mathematics (e.g. statistics) or mathematical methods (e.g. solving differential equations) unless an original application to a statistical physics problem is included. Also research on fluid mechanics intended for an engineering readership as well as ordinary economic/econometrical studies falls outside the scope of Physica A .Specific subfields covered by the journal are statistical mechanics applications to:Soft matterBiological systems and systems biologyChemical systemsEconophysics and sociophysicsTraffic and transportationPhase transitionsComplex systemsDeep learning, genetic algorithms and other methods of AIBenefits to authors We also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services.Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our Support Center
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Physics Letters A

  • ISSN: 0375-9601
  • 5 Year impact factor: 2.1
  • Impact factor: 2.3
The journal Physics Letters A offers a rapid review and publication outlet for novel theoretical and experimental frontier physics.The journal covers the following topics:Condensed matter physics,Quantum information (including artificial intelligence and machine learning),Nonlinear science,Statistical physics,Mathematical and computational physics,AMO and physics of complex systems,Plasma and fluid physics,Optical physics,General and cross-disciplinary physics,Biological physics and nanoscience,Astrophysics, Particle physics and Cosmology.Physics Letters A also publishes Invited Perspective Articles focusing on break-through research in physics.Note to authors: If you wish to be considered for an Invited Perspective Article please contact the Editors. Physics Letters A does not publish articles on High Energy and Nuclear Physics. Plagiarism, or copying text or results from other sources, is unethical behavior and is not tolerated at Physics Letters A. All manuscripts submitted to Physics Letters A will be checked for originality using the CrossCheck database. For more information on CrossCheck please visit http://www.crossref.org/crosscheck.html.
Physics Letters A