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Focus and Coverage

Physics of Plasmas, published by the American Institute of Physics with the cooperation of The American Physical Society, Division of Plasma Physics, is devoted to original experimental and theoretical contributions to the physics of plasmas. Content is published online daily, collected into monthly online and printed issues (12 issues per year).

The scope of contributed material includes:

• Equilibria, linear waves, and instabilities
• Nonlinear behavior, including turbulent and stochastic phenomena and associated transport, and solitons and shock waves
• Plasma physics of lasers and particle beams and charged-particle acceleration and transport
• Radiation generation, transport, propagation, and interaction with plasmas
• Low-temperature plasmas, including sources
• Plasma chemistry and processing
• Geophysical, planetary, solar, and astrophysical plasmas
• Plasma confinement by magnetic fields
• Inertial confinement physics
• Physics of high energy density plasmas or matter under extreme conditions
• Dusty plasmas

 2010 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2011)*:
The most highly cited journal devoted fully to plasma physics (Thomson Reuters, 2011)

* Data from the 2010 Journal Citation Reports® Science Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2011).

2009 Journal Metrics from Elsevier Scopus®**:

**Data retrieved from www.journalmetrics.com. Copyright 2010 Elsevier B.V.

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Editors and Office Staff

Editor

Ronald C. Davidson

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Princeton, NJ, USA

Resident Associate Editor

Stewart J. Zweben

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Princeton, NJ, USA

Assistant to the Editor

Laura F. Wright
physplas@pppl.gov (contact for information on the status of submissions and general procedures)

Editor Emeritus

1982-1989: Fred L. Ribe

Founding Editor

1958-1981: François N. Frenkiel

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Associate Editors

Term ending 31 December 2012

Roderick W. Boswell (The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia)

Jack W. Connor (Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, UK)

S. Peter Gary (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA)

Martin Greenwald (MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA)

Wim P. Leemans (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA)

Richard V. E. Lovelace (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)

Andre L. Rogister (Institute fur Plasmaphysik, Julich, Germany)

Dmitri D. Ryutov (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA)

Jie Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China)

Term ending 31 December 2013

Hiroshi Azechi (Osaka University, Suita City, Osaka, Japan)

Michael P. Desjarlais (Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, NM, USA)

John L. Giuliani (U.S. Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC, USA)

Robert L. Merlino (University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA)

William M. Nevins (Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA, USA)

David L. Newman (University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA)

Frank Verheest (Universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgium)

Term ending 31 December 2014

William D. Dorland (University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA)

Michael E. Mauel (Columbia University, New York, NY, USA)

Robert L. McCrory (University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA)

Padma K. Shukla (Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany)

John P. Verboncoeur (Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA)

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Editorial Office

Contact the PoP Editorial Office at:

Physics of Plasmas Editorial Office

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

James Forrestal Campus

MS 20

Princeton, NJ 08543, USA

Telephone: 609-243-2424

Fax: 609-243-2427

E-mail: physplas@pppl.gov (contact for information on the status of submissions and general procedures)

E-mail: pop.aip.org (contact for information on editorial policies and formatting)

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AIP Production Office

Authors of accepted manuscripts may contact the AIP Production Office at:

Editorial Supervisor

Physics of Plasmas

American Institute of Physics

Suite 1NO1

2 Huntington Quadrangle

Melville, NY 11747-4502, USA

Telephone: +1 516-576-2414

Fax: +1 631-396-0060

E-mail: php@aip.org (contact for information on accepted papers in the production process)

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ISSN and CODEN

Print: ISSN 1070-664X
Online: ISSN 1089-7674
 

CODEN: PHPAEN

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