| Annalen der Physik | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviated title (ISO) | Ann. der Physik, Ann. Phys. (Berlin) |
| Discipline | Physics |
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Ulrich Eckern |
| Publication details | |
| Publisher | Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA (Germany) |
| Publication history | 1799–present |
| Frequency | 12/year |
| Open access | Free access for 1799-1940 issues |
| Impact factor (2009) |
1.844 |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0003-3804 (print) 1521-3889 (web) |
| LCCN | 50013519 |
| OCLC number | 5854993 |
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Annalen der Physik (Annals of Physics) is one of the oldest physics journals worldwide, published since 1799. The journal publishes original, peer-reviewed papers in the areas of experimental, theoretical, applied and mathematical physics and related areas. The current editor in chief is Ulrich Eckern.
The journal is the successor to Journal der Physik published from 1790 until 1794, and Neues Journal der Physik published from 1795 until 1797.[1] The journal has been published under a variety of names (Annalen der Physik, Annalen der Physik und der physikalischen Chemie, Annalen der Physik und Chemie) during its history.
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Originally, Annalen der Physik was published in German. From the 1950s to the 1980s, the journal published in both German and English. First, only foreign authors contributed articles in English, but from the 1970s German-speaking authors increasingly wrote in English in order to reach an international audience. After the German reunification in 1990, English became the only language of the journal.
The importance of Annalen der Physik unquestionably peaked in 1905 with Albert Einstein's annus mirabilis papers. In the 1920s, the journal lost ground to the concurrent Zeitschrift für Physik. With the 1933 emigration wave, German-language journals lost many of their best authors. From 1944–1946 publication was interrupted because of World War II, but resumed in 1947 under Soviet occupation rule. While Zeitschrift für Physik moved to Western Germany, Annalen der Physik served physicists in East Germany. After the German reunification, the journal was acquired by Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, a subsidiary of John Wiley & Sons.
A relaunch of the journal with new editor and new contents is announced for 2012.[2]
The early editors-in-chief were:
With each editor, the numbering of volumes restarted from 1 (co-existent with a continuous numbering, a perpetual source of confusion).[1] The journal was often referred to by the editor's name: Gilberts Annalen, Poggendorfs Annalen, and so on, or for short Pogg. Ann., Wied. Ann.
After Drude, the work was divided between two editors:
In these times, peer-review was not yet standard. Einstein just sent his manuscripts to Planck who gave them into print.
Some of the most famous papers published in Annalen der Physik were:
The journal is indexed in: