About Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beam

Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams (PRST-AB), is a peer reviewed, purely electronic journal, distributed without charge to readers and funded by contributions from national laboratories. It covers the full range of accelerator science and technology: subsystem and component technologies, beam dynamics; accelerator applications; and design, operation, and improvement of accelerators used in science and industry. This includes accelerators for high energy and nuclear physics, synchrotron radiation production, spallation neutron sources, medical therapy, and intense beam applications.

ISI's Impact and Immediacy Factor Data (2006)

Impact Factor: 1.474
Immediacy Index: 0.260

2007 Publication Numbers

Number of articles: 138
Number of papers: 1,345

2008 Publication Projections

Number of articles: 145
Number of pages: 1,600

2008 Publication Frequency

Volumes 11 (12 issues)

2008 Subscription Rates

No charge or registration required.

ISSN

1098-4402 (online)

Article Number

PRST-AB identifies articles by volume number and a six-digit article ID (instead of volume and page number), for example, Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 1, 012803 (1998). The article ID's are constructed so as to allow them to be assigned at the time of publication while keeping the articles within each issue ordered by subject heading. More information.

Abstracting/Indexing Includes

INSPEC, PubSCIENCE, SPIN.

Features for Authors

• 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.
• Forms and Memos - Direct access to journal-related forms and memos.

Features for Readers

• Email ToC Alerts - Receive table of contents email alerts as new journal issues are complete.
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• Accepted Papers Lists - Access listings of recently accepted papers in advance of publication