Physica Status Solidi


Physica Status Solidi, often stylized physica status solidi or pss, is a family of international peer-reviewed, scientific journals, publishing research on all aspects of solid state physics, and materials science. It is owned and published by Wiley–VCH. These journals publish over 2000 articles per year, making it one of the largest international publications in condensed matter physics. The current editor in chief is Stefan Hildebrandt at the Editorial Office based in Berlin. This office also manages the peer-review process.

History

Physica Status Solidi was founded by Karl Wolfgang Böer in East Berlin and published its first issue in July 1961. Shortly after the journal was founded, the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961 exacerbated the distances between scientists from the Eastern and Western blocs. Throughout the cold war Physica Status Solidi maintained political independence and English as publication language and, as such, it became a major platform for the scientists behind the Iron Curtain to disseminate their results in the Western world and thus a forum of international exchange for scientists from the East and the West.
In 1970 the journal was divided into series A and B. In 2003, series C was created to accommodate the publication of conference proceedings.
Following the reunification of Germany in 1990 the journal's original publisher Akademie Verlag became part of the VCH Publishing group, which again was merged into John Wiley & Sons, leading to the formation of Wiley-VCH Verlag in 1997.
A fourth series, RRL, was launched in 2007 to publish short articles of broader and immediate interest to the solid state physics and materials science community. Publication times are typically two weeks from submission to online publication.

Journals

JournalAbbreviationScopeFrequency Publication HistoryImpact factor Page
Physica Status SolidiPhys. Status SolidiInitial journal, predecessor of the later seriesvarying1961–1970
Physica Status Solidi A – Applications and Materials SciencePhys. Status Solidi APreparation, structure and simulation of advanced materials, nanostructures, surfaces and interfaces, as well as properties of such materials and structures relevant for device applications. It does not, however, publish materials engineering and electrical engineering topics.121970–present1.469
Physica Status Solidi B – Basic Solid State PhysicsPhys. Status Solidi BTheoretical and experimental investigations of the atomistic and electronic structure of solids in general, phase transitions, electronic, optical, magnetic, superconducting, ferroelectric or other properties of solids, low-dimensional, nanoscale, strongly correlated or disordered systems etc.121971–present1.489
Physica Status Solidi C – Current Topics in Solid State PhysicsPhys. Status Solidi CConference Proceedings in the area of solid state physics and materials science.122003–presentIndexed in ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index
Physica Status Solidi – Rapid Research LettersPhys. Status Solidi Rapid Res. Lett.Rapid Research Letters on important findings with a high degree of novelty and need for express publication, as well as other results of immediate interest to the solid state physics and materials science community. Rapid Research Letters particularly invites papers from interdisciplinary and emerging new areas of research, with a length limit of 3 pages per contribution.92007–present2.388