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Featured Journals

Journals dedicated to research in chemical physics:

The Journal of Chemical Physics

The most cited in chemical physics

3.1 Impact Factor*
19.1 Years cited half-life*
7.4 CiteScore™^†
500+ Avg. views/article annually
67 Days avg. time to acceptance
24 Days avg. time to first decision
Topics covered: Chemical physics, quantum chemistry, atomic and molecular physics, biological physics, quantum mechanics, materials science
Article types: Articles, Communications, Perspectives, Tutorials, Special Topics, and Reviews
Access type: Subscription with open access option

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Chemical Physics Reviews

A journal focused on high quality research in Chemical Physics

6.1 Impact Factor*
820+ Avg. views/article annually
109 Days avg. time to acceptance
41 Days avg. time to first decision
Topics covered: Catalysts and catalysis, computational chemical physics, dynamics in chemical physics, energy storage & conversion
Article types: Reviews, Original Research
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Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data

The authoritative resource for critically evaluated reference data for the physical sciences and engineering

4.4 Impact Factor*
30.2 Years cited half-life*
6.9 CiteScore™^†
360+ Avg. views/article annually
97 Days avg. time to acceptance
20 Days avg. time to first decision
Article types: Articles, Reviews
Topics covered: General physics, chemical physics, atomic and molecular physics, condensed matter physics
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Structural Dynamics

An open access, peer-reviewed journal focused on both time-dependent as well as time-independent structural determination.

2.3 Impact Factor*
6.1 Years cited half-life*
740+ Avg. views/article annually
91 Days avg. time to acceptance
33 Days avg. time to first decision
Article types: Articles, Perspectives, Reviews
Topics covered: Atomic and molecular physics, biological physics, chemical physics, quantum mechanics, materials science, condensed matter physics
Article types: Articles, Perspectives and Reviews
Access type: Gold open access

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Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics

Devoted to reporting new and original experimental and theoretical research in interdisciplinary areas at the interface of chemistry and physics

1.2 Impact Factor*
5.8 Years cited half-life*
24 Days Avg. time to first decision
Topics covered: Chemical physics, quantum chemistry, atomic and molecular physics, biological physics, quantum mechanics, materials science
Article types: Letters, Articles, Reviews, Comments
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Interdisciplinary Journals

Journals at the intersection of chemical physics and related disciplines:

AIP Advances

A peer-reviewed, open access journal covering all areas of the physical sciences

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Applied Physics Letters

Shaping the future of applied physics

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Journal of Applied Physics

Significant results in cutting-edge applied physics

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APL Energy

Bridging basic research and innovative technology that will impact the future

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APL Materials

A high-impact open access journal embracing all research across materials science

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Applied Physics Reviews

High impact results in applied physics

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Biointerphases

Understanding biological and biomaterial interfaces through quantitative characterization, modeling and mechanisms

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APL Electronic Devices

Fostering connections across multiple disciplines in the broad electronics community

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Surface Science Spectra

Convenient and easy access to peer-reviewed spectral data from on-going international industrial and academic research

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Nanotechnology and Precision Engineering

An open access, peer-reviewed journal that covers all areas related to nanotechnology and precision engineering

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Featured AIP Conference Proceedings

AIP Conference Proceedings has been a trusted publishing partner for more than 40 years, delivering fast, affordable, and versatile publishing for maximum exposure of your meeting’s key research.  Below are just a few of the Proceedings that are rooted in chemical physics research.

	22^nd Preface III International Scientific and Practical Symposium “Materials Science and Technology” (MST-III-2023)
	Preface II International Scientific and Practical Conference “Technologies, Materials Science and Engineering” (EEA-II-2023)
	Preface: 4th International Conference on Green Engineering & Technology 2022 (ICONGETECH 2022)

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Highlighted Research

Discover a curated selection of articles on chemical physics chosen by our expert editorial team.

Combining machine learning and molecular simulations to predict the stability of amorphous drugs

Amorphous drugs represent an intriguing option to bypass the low solubility of many crystalline formulations of pharmaceuticals. The physical stability of the amorphous phase with respect to the crystal is crucial to bring amorphous formulations into the market—however, predicting the timescale involved with the onset of crystallization a priori is a formidably challenging task.

Ultrafast 2D-IR spectroscopy of intensely optically scattering pelleted solid catalysts

Solid, powdered samples are often prepared for infrared (IR) spectroscopy analysis in the form of compressed pellets. The intense scattering of incident light by such samples inhibits applications of more advanced IR spectroscopic techniques, such as two-dimensional (2D)-IR spectroscopy.

Terahertz (THz) biophotonics technology: Instrumentation, techniques, and biomedical applications

Terahertz (THz) technology has experienced rapid development in the past two decades. Growing numbers of interdisciplinary applications are emerging, including materials science, physics, communications, and security as well as biomedicine.

Singlet fission photovoltaics: Progress and promising pathways

Singlet fission is a form of multiple exciton generation, which occurs in organic chromophores when a high-energy singlet exciton separates into two lower energy triplet excitons, each with approximately half the singlet energy. Since this process is spin-allowed, it can proceed on an ultrafast timescale of less than several picoseconds, outcompeting most other loss mechanisms and reaching quantitative yields approaching 200%.

Identifying protein conformational states in the Protein Data Bank: Toward unlocking the potential of integrative dynamics studies

Studying protein dynamics and conformational heterogeneity is crucial for understanding biomolecular systems and treating disease. Despite the deposition of over 215 000 macromolecular structures in the Protein Data Bank and the advent of AI-based structure prediction tools such as AlphaFold2, RoseTTAFold, and ESMFold, static representations are typically produced, which fail to fully capture macromolecular motion.

Relativistic ultrafast electron diffraction at high repetition rates

The ability to resolve the dynamics of matter on its native temporal and spatial scales constitutes a key challenge and convergent theme across chemistry, biology, and materials science. The last couple of decades have witnessed ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) emerge as one of the forefront techniques with the sensitivity to resolve atomic motions.

Ultrafast intrinsic excited state localization m 2D layered As2S3 by interlayer bond formation†

The family of two-dimensional (2D) layered materials with strong excitonic effect offers fascinating opportunities for studying excited state exciton behavior at 2D limit. While exciton dynamics in conventional 2D semiconductors (e.g. transition metal dichalcogenides) has been extensively studied, little is known about exciton properties and dynamics in 2D layered semiconductors with strong electron/exciton-phonon coupling.

Crystallographic groups prediction from chemical composition via deep learning

Crystallographic group is an important character to describe the crystal structure, but it is difficult to identify the crystallographic group of crystal when only chemical composition is given. Here, we present a machine-learning method to predict the crystallographic group of crystal structure from its chemical formula. 34528 stable compounds in 230 crystallographic groups are investigated, of which 72% of data set are used as training set, 8% as validation set, and 20% as test set.

Protocol for Structure Determination of Unknowns by EI Mass Spectrometry. III. Diagnostic Ions in Multiple Ring Carbo- and Heterocycles, and Mono-Functional Derivatives

Electron ionization (EI) mass spectra of bi- and poly-ring carbo- and heterocycles including saturated and unsaturated spiranes, condensed ring and bridged ring systems are examined. Three, four, five, six-membered and larger rings are considered. The rings may include oxygen, sulfur, nitrogen, selenium or phosphorus atom or multiple hetero atoms.

Experimental and Semiclassical Stark Widths and Shifts for Spectral Lines of Neutral and Ionized Atoms (A Critical Review of Experimental and Semiclassical Data for the Period 2008 Through 2020)

This Review Article compares new experimental and corresponding semiclassical Stark broadened data for non-hydrogenic spectral lines of neutral atoms and positive ions. This Review covers the period 2008 until the end of 2020 and presents the continuation of previous critical reviews from 1976 (two), 1984 (two), 1990, 2002, and one from 2009.

Upcoming Conferences

You’ll find AIP Publishing’s editors and journal managers at these upcoming conferences and events. We hope to see you there!

54th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics (PQE)
Snowbird, UT, USA
January 6-10, 2025

2025 AAPT Winter Meeting
Saint Louis, MO, USA
January 18-21, 2025

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*Data from the 2023 Journal Citation Reports® Science Edition (Clarivate, 2024).
†CiteScore™ 2023 for AIP Publishing Journals Calculated by Scopus