About Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams

Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams (PRST-AB) is a peer reviewed online open-access journal distributed without charge to readers and funded by contributions from national and international laboratories and other partners. The articles are published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

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.

The European Physical Society Accelerators Group and the American Physical Society Division of Physics of Beams form the Affiliated Professional Groups. They share the responsibility for the health and vitality of Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams by providing advice and encouraging scholarly publication in accelerator science and technology. PRST-AB has an Editorial Board whose members are appointed for three-year terms by the Editor in Chief upon recommendation of the Editor after consultation with the Affiliated Professional Groups. More information on the role of the board can be found under “Editorial Policies and Practices.”

ISI's Impact and Immediacy Factor Data (2010)

Impact Factor: 1.661
Immediacy Index: 0.352

2011 Publication Numbers

Number of articles: 197
Number of pages: 1963

2012 Publication Projections

Number of articles: 160
Number of pages: 1600

2012 Publication Frequency

Volume 15 (12 issues)

2012 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

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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.
• RSS Feeds - Subscribe to a variety of Editor-selected cross-journal feeds as well as individual journal RSS feeds.
• Accepted Papers Lists - Access listings of recently accepted papers in advance of publication