About the Journal

Focus and Coverage | Editors and Office Staff | Associate Editors | Editorial Office | AIP Production Office

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

2008 Journal Citation Data from Thomson Reuters*:
The most highly cited journal devoted fully to plasma physics (Thomson Reuters, 2008)
Impact Factor = 2.427
Immediacy Index = 0.704
Cited Half-Life = 5.3
EigenFactor Score = 0.06577
Article Influence Score = 0.794

*Data from the 2008 Science Edition of Thomson Reuters's Journal Citation Reports ®.

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Editors and Office Staff

Editor

Ronald C. Davidson

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Princeton, NJ

Resident Associate Editor

Stewart J. Zweben

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Princeton, NJ

Assistant Editor

Sandra L. Schmidt
sschmidt@pppl.gov (contact for information on editorial policies and formatting)

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 2009

Roderick W. Boswell (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)

Term ending 31 December 2010

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

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

Kimitaka Itoh (National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki, Gifu, Japan)

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)

Term ending 31 December 2011

James F. Drake (University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA)

Ronald M. Gilgenbach (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA)

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

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

Term ending 31 December 2012

Roderick W. Boswell (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)

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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: sschmidt@pppl.gov (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: +1 516-576-2384

Fax: +1 631-396-0060

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

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