Reviews of Modern Physics
Reviews of Modern Physics is the premier APS venue for publishing in-depth reviews of critical or timely topics that give context to current research trends in physics and adjacent fields.
Unrivaled Insight into Physics Research
Since 1929, RMP has provided an unrivaled venue for authoritative review papers in all fields of physics. RMP publishes two types of essay, Reviews and Colloquia. Review articles present the current status of a given topic, with historical background, a critical distillation of research progress, and a summary of possible future developments. Colloquia communicate results at the frontiers of physics, which may impact several subfields. RMP also publishes Nobel Lectures, text of the addresses given in conjunction with the awards.
By Scientists, For Scientists
Like all of the journals in the Physical Review family, RMP is shaped by researchers to serve the research community. This ensures that its mission, standards, and policies prioritize the needs of researchers and the broader scientific community; this commitment is reinforced by APS’s promise as a founding member of the Purpose-Led Publishing coalition.
RMP covers the full range of applied, fundamental, and interdisciplinary physics research topics, and all topics covered within the Physical Review portfolio. Specific areas of interest include:
- Applied Physics
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Astroparticle Physics
- Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
- Biological Physics
- Chemical Physics
- Climate Science
- Computational Physics
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Cosmology and Gravitation
- Fluids and Solids
- General Physics
- Geophysics
- High-energy Physics, Particles, and Fields
- Machine Learning
- Materials Science
- Mathematical Physics
- Nuclear Physics
- Particle-beam and Accelerator Physics
- Plasma Physics and Fusion
- Quantum Information
- Soft Matter
At the core of APS's mission is a commitment to meeting the needs of physicists, a community that has been at the leading edge of open access. Articles published in RMP benefit from the following initiatives:
- APS makes its journals free to read at U.S. public libraries and high schools by application. Contact publisher@aps.org for more information.
- APS is a founding member of CHORUS, which enables distributed public access to published research articles reporting on U.S. federal government funded research.
Editorial Team
RMP articles are curated by a professional editorial team of Ph.D. scientists, who have extensive research experience and work at major academic institutions around the world.
Featured in Physics Editors regularly notify Physics, APS’s daily online news and commentary publication, about important papers, resulting in coverage in the forms of Synopsis, Focus, or Viewpoint.
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Editorial and Publishing Policies
All journals published by APS follow a common set of Editorial Policies and Practices, which cover Editorial Oversight and Decision Making, Authorship, Submissions, Resubmissions, and Transfers, Peer Review, Ethics and Research Integrity, Post Publication, and Open Access and Publications Rights.
RMP is published electronically one article at a time. Articles are identified by volume number and a six-digit article number, for example, Journal 1, XXXXXX (2020).
RMP editors can decide to accelerate the review process for a small number of manuscripts that report particularly important or groundbreaking research.