Open-access journal publishing high quality, editorially selected and peer reviewed advances in physics
Communications Physics is an open access journal from Nature Portfolio publishing high-quality research, reviews and commentary in all areas of the physical sciences. Research papers published by the journal represent significant advances bringing new insight to a specialized area of research in physics. We also aim to provide a community forum for issues of importance to all physicists, regardless of sub-discipline.
The scope of the journal covers all areas of experimental, applied, fundamental, and interdisciplinary physical sciences and includes (but is not limited to):
- Astrophysics and cosmology
- Atomic and molecular physics
- Biophysics and biological physics
- Chemical physics
- Complex systems and network science
- Condensed-matter physics
- Electronics and device physics
- Energy materials
- Fluid dynamics
- High-energy particle physics
- Information theory and computation
- Materials sciences
- Nanotechnology
- Nuclear physics
- Optical physics and photonics
- Plasma physics
- Polymers and thin films
- Quantum physics and quantum technologies
- Soft condensed-matter physics
- Statistical physics, thermodynamics and nonlinear dynamics
Primary research published in Communications Physics includes novel experimental results, new techniques or computational methods that may influence the work of others in the sub-discipline. We also consider submissions from adjacent research fields where the central advance of the study is of interest to physicists, for example material sciences, physical chemistry and technologies.
The submission and review processes are managed by our in-house professional editors supported by our Editorial Board Members, who provide technical expertise across the breadth of the physical sciences. We are committed to rapid dissemination of significant research results. Articles are published on a continuous basis with minimal time from acceptance to publication.
Criteria for publication
To be published in Communications Physics a paper should meet several general criteria:
In general, to be acceptable, a paper should represent an advance in understanding which may influence thinking in the field
Journal Information
Communications Physics is an open access journal from Nature Portfolio publishing high-quality research, reviews and commentary in all areas of physics. Research papers published by the journal represent significant advances bringing new insight to a specialized area of research. Communications Physics complements the other Nature Portfolio journals by providing a new open access option for physicists while applying less stringent criteria for impact and significance than the Nature-branded journals, including Nature Communications.
Communications Physics publishes primary research Articles (both full and shorter papers), Reviews, Comments, and Matters Arising. A guide to our content types can be found here.
All Nature Portfolio journals, including Communications Physics, apply the same criteria for technical validity and adherence to ethical standards. More information about editorial policies at Nature Portfolio can be found here.
Visit the pages in this section for specific information about our aims and scope, the Communications Physics editors and editorial board and the benefits of open access publishing.
Abstracting and indexing
Communications Physics is currently indexed in:
Our in-house editors are PhD-level scientists with research experience. All in-house editors work full-time for the journal to oversee the review process, handle manuscripts as primary editors, liaise with our Editorial Board Members and enforce journal policy. Editors also engage in other activities on behalf of the journal, such as attending and organizing conferences and meeting with scientists at their institutions.
In-house editors work closely with our Editorial Board Members to ensure that all manuscripts are subject to the same editorial standards and journal policies.
Chief Editor: Elena Belsole
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Elena has a passion for physics and is enthusiastic about continuously implementing innovative ways to serve the physics community. She holds a PhD in Astrophysics and Space Sciences from Paris VI and conducted her research on X-ray astrophysics at the CEA Saclay (France). She carried out postdoctoral research at Bristol and Cambridge Universities before moving to a career in STM publishing. Before joining Communications Physics she was the executive editor of New Journal of Physics. In addition to her Chief Editor duties, Elena handles manuscripts in the areas pf astrophysics, plasmas and atomic and molecular physics. Elena is based in the London office.
elena.belsole@nature.com
Associate Editor: Arianna Bottinelli
Arianna joined Communications Physics in July 2019. She has a background in theoretical physics, and holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Uppsala University. Her interdisciplinary research focussed on the emergence of collective behaviour in social animals, the evolution and optimization of transport networks, and collective motion in high-density crowds and crowd disasters. During her postdocs at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics in Stockholm and Inria Rennes, she developed new techniques inspired by soft and active matter physics to understand and predict the emergence of density waves and coherent motion in jammed human crowds. At the same time, she pushed the experimental side of her research by collecting field data at rock concerts. She is particularly interested in the interdisciplinary aspects of physics and in the connection between science and art.
Arianna handles manuscripts in complex systems, complex networks, soft and active matter and statistical physics, as well as interdisciplinary research across these fields. Arianna is based in the London office.
arianna.bottinelli@nature.com
Senior Editor: Saleem Denholme
Saleem joined Communications Physics in October 2017. He obtained his PhD from the University of Glasgow investigating the synthesis and characterisation of transition metal chalcogenide nanomaterials. He then conducted postdoctoral work as a Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow at the National Institute of Materials Science, Tsukuba and later as assistant professor in the Department of Applied Physics at the Tokyo University of Science. His research interests include low-dimensional materials and iron-based superconductivity. At Communications Physics Saleem handles manuscripts in materials science and condensed matter physics. Saleem is based in the London office.
saleem.denholme@nature.com
Associate Editor: Daniel Payne
Before joining Communications Physics in April 2019, Daniel obtained his PhD from University College London, where he utilised femtosecond lasers to study charge carrier dynamics on metal oxide surfaces via pump-probe spectroscopy. Subsequently, he extended his research to a number of strongly correlated condensed-matter systems, including superconducting and charge density wave materials, at Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy. While there, Daniel also gained experience developing ultra-fast light sources based on high harmonic generation. He is passionate about equality and diversity in the physics community. Daniel handles manuscripts in optics, photonics and plasmonics. Daniel is based in the London office.
daniel.payne@nature.com
https://www.nature.com/commsphys/editorial-board
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