About this journal

Physics Access publishes papers of the highest quality and significance in all areas of physics, pure and applied. The journal does not make a subjective assessment on the potential future significance of a paper, instead providing a rapid platform for communicating research that meets high standards of scientific rigour and contributes to the development of knowledge in physics.

All physics-related research is in scope, including interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies. All types of results can be published, provided they contribute to advancing knowledge in their field, including negative results, null results and replication studies.

Scope

Physics Access publishes papers of the highest quality and significance in all areas of physics, pure and applied. The journal provides a rapid platform for communicating research that meets high standards of scientific rigour and contributes to the development of knowledge in physics.

All physics-related research is in scope, including interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies. All types of results can be published, provided they contribute to advancing knowledge in their field, including negative results, null results and replication studies.

Why you should publish in Physics Access

• Broad scope: the journal scope extends across all areas of physics and interdisciplinary topics.
• Fast publication: we are committed to providing you with a speedy, professional service to ensure rapid first decision, acceptance and publication. Once accepted, your article will be accessible to readers within 24 hours and will include a citable DOI.
• High standards: Physics Access operates a transparent editorial selection and feedback process focused on scientific validity and rigour. Articles will be peer reviewed by Physics Access' global network of expert referees.
• Open Access: Publishing under an Open Access license advances information equity by making your research more visible, useful, and more transparent. Open Access articles published in Physics Access are freely available online to all at no cost and with limited restrictions regarding reuse. Anyone with internet access can find, read, mine, cite and share our articles at no cost to them.

Article types

Physics Access welcomes submissions of the following article types:

• Original Research: articles of unlimited length that report new research.
• Short Reports or Letters: short research articles that report new research. As a guide, letters should not generally be more than eight journal pages (or around 4500 words) in length.
• Review Articles: articles presenting a snapshot of recent progress in a particular field.

Frequency

Physics Access publishes two (2) issues per year.

Peer review

Physics Access operates a double-blind peer review process, in which both the reviewers and the authors do not know their identities.

If an article is not accepted for publication in Physics Access, we may offer the author the opportunity to transfer their submission to other suitable journals for consideration.

Physics Access has a policy of “Zero Tolerance on the Plagiarism”. Physics Access checks plagiarism through two methods: reviewer check and plagiarism prevention tool.

All submissions will be checked by iThenticate before being sent to reviewers.

Ethics

Physics Access maintains the highest standards of publication and research ethics. Authors are expected to comply with Physics Access' policy.

Open access

Physics Access is a fully open access journal. Articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence. Articles are freely available to everyone to read and reuse immediately upon publication, provided attribution to the author is given. Publication is funded by article publication charges (APCs). The APC for Physics Access can be found on the Publication charges page.

Abstracting and indexing services

We work with our authors to help make their work as easy to discover as possible. Physics Access is currently included in the following abstracting and discovery services:

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Google Scholar
• Index Copernicus International (ICI)
• Scilit
• African Journals Online (AJOL)
• Dimensions
• EBSCO

Archiving Policy

Physics Access is committed to the long-term preservation of its contents. All articles published in Physics Access are archived through the facilities available. Physics Access has been using the services of Internet Archive.

Physics Access allows archiving and storing of published papers by individuals, organizations, institutions and others. Anyone is free to store and archive the published papers for use, but such uses must be in accordance with the terms and conditions of use — with due reference to the published papers in the journal and due credit to the authors.

Data Repository

Repositories are platforms for depositing and sharing data, and thereby also a source to find data for potential re-use.

Ideally, authors should deposit their data in a repository before submitting their work for publication. This allows authors to provide a persistent identifier and an accurate data availability statement when submitting their work. Authors should deposit the underlying data to a recognised disciplinary public repository for public release scheduled no later than the publication date of the article.

Physics Access does not host data. Instead, we require authors to submit datasets to an appropriate public data repository. Data should be submitted to discipline-specific, community-recognised repositories where possible. Where a suitable discipline-specific resource does not exist, data should be submitted to a generalist repository. Repositories need to meet our requirements for anonymous peer review, data access, preservation, resource stability, licences and suitability for use by all researchers with the appropriate types of data.

All data need to be available for peer review. Where logins or other barriers are required or temporarily applied, routes for confidential peer review of submitted datasets need to be provided that do not reveal the identity of the reviewer to the data owner/author of the associated article.

Data may also be deposited to these resources temporarily, if the main host repository does not support confidential peer review.

If data have not been deposited to a repository prior to manuscript submission, we require that the data be submitted alongside the manuscript or sent as an add-on to editor-in-chief@physicsaccess.com with reference to the submitted manuscript.