The scientific journal Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk is a periodical monthly publication. Included in the list of scientific journals published monthly, VAK. "Successes in the Physical Sciences" is considered the most cited edition of the Russian scientific periodicals to date
History
The first volume of the magazine was published in 1918. The creator is considered P.P. Lazarev, who was subsequently appointed editor-in-chief. Before the new year 2009, Leonid Veniaminovich Keldysh, academician, was elected as the chief editor. At the end of 2016, he was gone. Temporary duties of the chief editor are performed by V. A. Rubakov, current academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Since mid-2004, the Physics Institute named after P.N. Lebedev, a member of the RAS.
Publications
The journal publishes articles that are relevant to the field of physics, as well as studies in which authors propose and explain unusual or unconventional conceptual ideas on the fundamental principles of the theory. Articles are always based on material from the authors' personal experiments.
Also in the publication "Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk" you can find works of an overview-critical orientation. In 2010, Physics-Uspekhi obtained the maximum indicator of the importance of the scientific weekly, the so-called impact factor, among all the scientific monthly published in Russia.
Main sections:
- Reviews of the problems of the physical sciences relevant today.
- Physical science these days.
- Research methods and instruments (review articles).
- Methodical articles and critical notes.
- From the history of physics (unsolved problems).
- Conferences and symposia (participants and critics).
- Book reviews.
- Physics news on the Internet.
The subject matter and content of the journal’s publications are intended for specialists in the field of physiology, undergraduate students of physics departments of universities, graduate students, teachers, biophysicists of a general biological profile and medical.
