Physics Today

Cover of October 2016 issue
Editor	Richard Fitzgerald
Categories	Physics
Frequency	Monthly
Publisher	American Institute of Physics
Total circulation (December 2012)	134,146[1]
First issue	1948
Country	United States
Based in	College Park, Maryland
Website	www.physicstoday.org
ISSN	0031-9228
OCLC	643170318

Physics Today is the membership magazine of the American Institute of Physics. First published in May 1948, it is issued on a monthly schedule, and is provided to the members of ten physics societies, including the American Physical Society. It is also available to non-members as a paid annual subscription.

The magazine informs readers about important developments in overview articles written by experts, shorter review articles written internally by staff, and also discusses issues and events of importance to the science community in politics, education, and other fields. The magazine provides a historical resource of events associated with physics. For example it discussed debunking the physics of the Star Wars program of the 1980s, and the state of physics in China and the Soviet Union during the 1950s and 1970s.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 4.370.^[2]

References

External links

• Official website

Archival collections

• AIP Physics Today Division miscellaneous publications, 1955-2006, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
• AIP Physics Today Division records of Irwin Goodwin, 1983-1993, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
• AIP Physics Today Division records, 1948-1971, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
• AIP Physics Today division Bertram Schwarzschild Nobel Prize files, 1954-2013, Niels Bohr Library & Archives