About Physical Review D
Physical Review D (PRD), a leading journal in elementary particle physics, field theory, gravitation, and cosmology, appears monthly in two sections, D1 and D15:
D1: reports on experimental high energy physics, phenomenologically oriented theory of particles and fields, cosmic-ray physics, electroweak interactions, applications of QCD and lattice gauge theory.
D15: covers general relativity, quantum theory of gravitation, cosmology, particle astrophysics,
formal aspects of theory of particles and fields, general and formal development in gauge field theories and string theory.
2011 JCR Data
Impact Factor: 4.558
5-Year Impact Factor: 4.027
Total Cites: 120,339
Immediacy Index: 1.738
Cited Half-life: 6.3
2011 Eigenfactor® Metrics
Eigenfactor® Score: 0.30104
Article Influence® Score: 1.244
2012 Publication Numbers
Number of articles: 3449
Number of pages: 41,833
2013 Publication Projections
Number of articles: 3400
Number of pages: 40,800
2013 Publication Frequency
Volumes 87, 88 (24 issues)
2013 Subscription Rates
APS Members
Institutional Subscriptions
2011 CD-ROM Edition
$60 per disk with journal subscription
ISSN
1550-7998 (print)
1550-2368 (online)
1538-4500 (CD-Rom)
Article Number
PRD is published electronically one article at a time. Articles are identified by volume number and a six-digit article number (instead of volume and page number), for example, Phys. Rev. D 58, 012013 (1998). This format allows articles to be fully citable as soon as they are published electronically, while maintaining the same identifier for both the electronic and print version. More information.
Abstracting/Indexing Includes
Chemical Abstracts, Computer & Control Abstracts, Current Physics Index, Electrical & Electronics Index, Energy Research Abstracts, INSPEC, International Aerospace Abstracts, Mathematical Reviews, Nuclear Science Abstracts, Physics Abstracts.
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- Free Color Online - There is no charge for color figures in our online journals. (For print journals there is an additional per figure charge. More information.)
- Open Access - Authors of accepted manuscripts may choose to pay an article-processing charge whereby their work is made open access, i.e., available to all readers at no cost and without a subscription, upon publication. Such articles are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (CC-BY), the most permissive of the CC licenses, which permits authors and others to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work, provided that proper credit is given.
- Online Manuscript Submission - Online submission of manuscripts via the web.
- Online Manuscript Status Check - The Author Status Inquiry System (ASIS) allows authors of manuscripts under consideration by our journals to obtain immediate information on the status of their papers electronically.
- For papers that have been accepted for publication information about their status in the production process is available via a service maintained by the production vendor. A link to this service is provided as part of the information provided by ASIS for such papers.
- Native Language Author Name Display - Chinese, Japanese, and Korean authors can choose to have their names displayed in their own language.
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- Open Access - Authors of accepted manuscripts may choose to pay an article-processing charge whereby their work is made open access, i.e., available to all readers at no cost and without a subscription, upon publication. Such articles are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (CC-BY), the most permissive of the CC licenses, which permits authors and others to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work, provided that proper credit is given.
