Physics Access

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Scope

Physics Access is an international, open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing knowledge in physics and its diverse applications across science, technology, and engineering. The journal provides a global forum for communicating rigorous, significant research that deepens understanding of physical phenomena, develops new scientific insights, and contributes to technological and societal advancement.

The journal welcomes original research articles, review articles, and emerging contributions spanning all areas of fundamental and applied physics. Its scope extends to interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research where physics provides a substantive foundation, methodology, or contribution. Physics Access encourages research that bridges traditional disciplinary boundaries and explores the role of physics in addressing contemporary scientific, technological, and societal challenges.

Manuscripts are assessed primarily on scientific soundness, methodological rigor, originality, clarity, and scholarly integrity, rather than on subjective predictions of future impact. The journal welcomes well-conducted studies that advance knowledge within their respective fields, including replication studies, negative results, and null results, provided they meet established standards of scientific and ethical rigor.

Physics Access is committed to inclusive and transparent scholarly communication and to making high-quality physics research openly accessible to the global scientific community. Through rigorous peer review and broad dissemination of scholarly knowledge, the journal seeks to foster research excellence, scientific dialogue, interdisciplinary collaboration, and innovation, while strengthening the contribution of physics to the understanding of nature and to the development of solutions for emerging scientific and technological challenges.

Why Publish in Physics Access?

Physics Access provides an international platform for the dissemination of high-quality research in physics and related interdisciplinary fields.

  • Broad and inclusive scope: The journal welcomes research across fundamental and applied physics, as well as interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies in which physics provides a substantive foundation, methodology, or contribution.
  • Rigorous peer review: Manuscripts are evaluated through a double-anonymous peer-review process by independent reviewers with appropriate subject expertise. Editorial decisions are based on scientific soundness, methodological rigor, originality, clarity, and scholarly integrity.
  • Open access: All published articles are freely available online, enabling researchers, professionals, students, institutions, and the wider public to access and use published research without subscription barriers.
  • DOI and persistent scholarly record: Published articles are assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), providing a persistent and citable link to the scholarly record.
  • Transparent and responsible publishing: Physics Access is committed to responsible editorial practices, publication ethics, research integrity, transparency, and continuous improvement of its publishing standards.
  • Global scholarly community: The journal provides a platform for researchers from different countries and disciplines to communicate their findings and contribute to international scientific dialogue.

Article Types

Physics Access welcomes submissions in the following categories:

  • Original Research Articles
    Original Research Articles report new theoretical, experimental, computational, observational, or methodological research that makes a substantive contribution to knowledge in the relevant field. Manuscripts should provide sufficient detail to support the evaluation, interpretation, and, where applicable, reproducibility of the research.
  • Short Reports and Letters
    Short Reports and Letters present concise research contributions, including significant new findings, observations, methods, techniques, or developments that can be communicated effectively in a shorter format. As a general guide, Short Reports and Letters should not normally exceed eight journal pages or approximately 4,500 words.
  • Review Articles
    Review Articles provide authoritative and critical syntheses of significant developments in a particular area of research. Reviews should go beyond a simple summary of existing literature by providing critical analysis, interpretation, identification of research trends or gaps, and, where appropriate, perspectives on future research directions.

Publication Frequency

Physics Access operates a continuous publication model and publishes two issues per year.

Articles are published online individually as soon as they have completed the editorial and production process and are formally accepted for publication. Each published article is assigned a DOI and becomes immediately available as part of the journal's permanent scholarly record.

Published articles are subsequently assigned to the appropriate annual issue.

Peer Review

Physics Access operates a double-anonymous peer-review process, in which the identities of authors and reviewers are concealed from each other to the extent practicable.

All submitted manuscripts undergo an initial editorial assessment to determine their suitability for the journal's scope, scientific quality, and basic scholarly requirements. Manuscripts that proceed beyond the initial assessment are evaluated by independent reviewers with appropriate expertise in the subject area.

Editorial decisions are based on scientific soundness, methodological rigor, originality, clarity, relevance to the journal's scope, and scholarly integrity. The journal does not guarantee acceptance or publication within a predetermined period, as editorial decisions depend on the quality and completeness of the manuscript and the outcome of the peer-review process.

Plagiarism Screening

Physics Access maintains a zero-tolerance approach to plagiarism and other forms of publication misconduct.

Submitted manuscripts are screened using PlagiarismGuard and iThenticate as part of the journal's editorial quality-control process, normally before peer review. Similarity reports are assessed by editors in context, since a similarity match does not in itself constitute plagiarism.

Where plagiarism, inappropriate text reuse, duplicate publication, or other forms of publication misconduct are identified, the journal will take appropriate action in accordance with its publication ethics and misconduct policies.

Publication Ethics

Physics Access is committed to maintaining high standards of publication and research ethics and to promoting responsible scholarly communication.

Authors, reviewers, editors, and other contributors are expected to uphold principles of research integrity and ethical publishing. The journal's policies address matters including authorship and contributorship, conflicts of interest, plagiarism and text reuse, duplicate or redundant publication, research misconduct, peer-review confidentiality, corrections and retractions, complaints and appeals, and the responsible use of artificial intelligence.

Authors are expected to comply with the journal's publication ethics policies and relevant ethical standards applicable to their research.

For further information, please consult the Physics Access Publication Ethics and Research Integrity Policy.

Open Access

Physics Access is a fully open-access journal. All published articles are freely available online immediately upon publication, without subscription or access barriers.

Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence, which permits reuse, distribution, and adaptation provided appropriate credit is given to the original work and its authors.

Article publication is supported through Article Processing Charges (APCs). Details of the applicable publication charges are available on the Publication Charges page.

Abstracting, Indexing and Discovery Services

Physics Access is committed to increasing the discoverability, accessibility, and visibility of the research it publishes.

The journal's content is currently included in the following abstracting, indexing, and scholarly discovery services:

The journal continually works to improve the discoverability and dissemination of its published content and to expand its presence in appropriate scholarly databases and indexing services.

Digital Archiving and Preservation

Physics Access is committed to the long-term preservation and continued accessibility of its published scholarly content.

Published articles are digitally archived through appropriate preservation and archiving services. Physics Access currently uses the Internet Archive as part of its digital preservation arrangements.

The journal also permits responsible archiving and storage of its published articles by individuals, researchers, institutions, libraries, repositories, and other organisations, provided that such use complies with the applicable licence and includes appropriate acknowledgement, citation, and credit to the journal and authors.

Data Availability and Repository Policy

Physics Access recognises the importance of responsible data sharing, transparency, reproducibility, and the long-term preservation of research data.

Authors are encouraged to deposit the underlying data supporting their research in a suitable repository before or at the time of manuscript submission. Where data are deposited in a repository, authors should provide a persistent identifier and an accurate Data Availability Statement in the manuscript.

Physics Access does not host research datasets. Authors should deposit relevant datasets in an appropriate public data repository. Where available, discipline-specific and community-recognised repositories are preferred. Where no suitable discipline-specific repository exists, authors may use an appropriate generalist repository.

Repositories should provide appropriate arrangements for data access, preservation, resource stability, licensing, and responsible reuse.

Where underlying research data are available, they should be accessible for peer-review purposes. If access requires authentication or other temporary restrictions, appropriate arrangements should be made to enable confidential peer review without compromising reviewer anonymity.

Where data cannot be openly shared because of ethical, legal, privacy, confidentiality, intellectual-property, security, or other legitimate restrictions, authors should clearly state the reason and describe the conditions or procedures under which the data may be accessed, where applicable.

Authors who have not deposited their data before manuscript submission should provide the relevant datasets alongside the manuscript or contact the Editor-in-Chief regarding appropriate arrangements.

DOI and Article Identification

Each article published by Physics Access is assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to provide a persistent and citable link to the published work.

The DOI forms part of the permanent scholarly record and facilitates the identification, citation, linking, and discovery of articles across scholarly communication platforms and databases.

Authors should use the assigned DOI when citing articles published in Physics Access.

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