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Focus and Coverage

Review of Scientific Instruments, published by the American Institute of Physics, is devoted to scientific instruments, apparatus, and techniques. Its contents include original and review articles on instruments in physics, chemistry, and the life sciences; and sections on new instruments and new materials. One volume is published annually. Conference proceedings are occasionally published and supplied in addition to the Journal's scheduled monthly issues.

Editorial policy is to interpret the term "scientific instruments" in the widest sense, as all of the tools of the scientist. We publish information on instruments, apparatus, techniques of experimental measurement, and related mathematical analysis. Since the use of instruments is not confined to the physical sciences, we welcome contributions from any of the physical and biological sciences and from related cross-disciplinary areas of science and technology.

Review Articles are invited reviews of selected topics in scientific instrumentation and experimental techniques contributed by experts in the field. Regular Articles are full-length papers describing original work on significant new ideas in instruments and measurement. Normally some data demonstrating the performance of an instrument should be included; proposals for a new instrument without such demonstration are acceptable only if they include significant analysis of the characteristics of the proposed techniques. Mathematics related to particular instruments or to measurements science is appropriate. Notes are short contributions, limited to three (3) printed pages in length; in general, a Note is appropriate for a restricted topic which can be dealt with in a brief text. Letters to the Editor often discuss issues in previously published articles, frequently accompanied by a reply from the original authors. However, they may be devoted to information or comments of a more general nature.

Information for Contributors contains instructions for manuscript preparation and is published in the first issue of each volume.

As selected by the Associate Editor for New Products, submissions to RSI on new instruments and components, new detectors, measurement and materials, new literature and software, and new facilities and hardware are published within a special section of regular monthly issues, entitled New Products. Literature should be sent directly to the Associate Editor for New Products.

 2010 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2011)*:
Review of Scientific Instruments regains spot as second most highly cited journal in Instruments & Instrumentation (Thomson Reuters, 2011)

* Data from the 2010 Journal Citation Reports^® Science Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2011).

2009 Journal Metrics from Elsevier Scopus®**:

**Data retrieved from www.journalmetrics.com. Copyright 2010 Elsevier B.V.

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Editors

Editor

Albert T. Macrander

Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA

Consulting Editors

Ian G. Brown: Consulting Editor for the ICIS Conference

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

James R. Matey: Consulting Editor for Invited Reviews and Invited Articles

National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

Kenneth M. Young: Consulting Editor for the HTPD Conference

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, USA

Associate Editors

David M. Bartels

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA

Jonathan C. Lang

Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA

Richard C. Pardo

Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA

Associate Editor for New Products

Andreas Mandelis

University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Editor, 1979-1999: Thomas H. Braid
Editor, 1954-1978: J. B. Horner Kuper
Editor, 1940-1954: Gaylord P. Harnwell
Editor, 1940: Joseph A. Becker
Editor, 1932-1939: F. K. Richtmyer
Editor, 1930-1932: Paul D. Foote

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Editorial Board

• Term ending 31 December 2012

Hyon Chol Kang (Chosun University, Gwangju, South Korea)
Fei Qi (University of Science and Technology of China, People's Republic of China)
Jun Shao (Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, People's Republic of China)
Thirumalai V. Venkatesan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Xingjiang Zhou (National Laboratory for Superconductivity, Beijing, People's Republic of China)

• Term ending 31 December 2013

Debabrata Goswami (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India)
György Peter Hárs (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary)
Tino Hofmann (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA)
Guy Lamouche (Industrial Materials Institute, NRC, Boucherville, Québec, Canada)
Manfred F. Maitz (IPF Dresden, Dresden, Germany)
Klaus Muller-Dethlefs (The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom)
Alexander N. Obraztsov (University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland) )
Edward C. Watters III (University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)

• Term ending 31 December 2014

Jill (Elizabeth) Foley (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, Princeton, NJ, USA)
Heinz Graafsma (DESY, HASYlab, Hamburg, Germany)
Andreas J. Heinrich (IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, USA)
Jamie K. Hobbs (University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Janos Kirz (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA)
Qunyang Li (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA)

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Editorial Office

Contact the RSI Editorial Office at:

Review of Scientific Instruments Editorial Office
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Avenue
Building 212, Room B109
Argonne, IL 60439-4838, USA

Telephone: 630-252-8236
Fax: 630-252-6371
E-mail: rsi@anl.gov

Editorial Office Staff: Lynn Purdy, Patricia Guimont

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AIP Production Office

Authors of accepted manuscripts may contact the AIP Production Office at:

Editorial Supervisor
Review of Scientific Instruments
American Institute of Physics
Suite 1NO1
2 Huntington Quadrangle
Melville, NY 11747-4502, USA

Telephone: +1 516-576-2619
Fax: +1 631-396-0060
E-mail: rsi@aip.org (contact for information on accepted papers in the production process)