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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.
2008 Journal Citation Data from Thomson Reuters*:
The most highly cited journal in Instruments & Instrumentation (Thomson Reuters, 2008)
Impact Factor = 1.738
Immediacy Index = 0.293
Cited Half-Life = 7.9
EigenFactor Score = 0.06686
Article Influence Score = 0.666
*Data from the 2008 Science Edition of Thomson Reuters's Journal Citation Reports ®.
Editors
Editor
- Albert T. Macrander
- Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA
Consulting Editors
- Ian G. Brown
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
- James R. Matey
- US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, USA
- Kenneth M. Young
- 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
Editorial Board
- Term ending 31 December 2010
- David L. Brower (University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Dmitry Budker (University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA)
Dongmin Chen (Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Beijing, People's Republic of China)
Tetsuo Hanaguri (RIKEN-Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Saitama, Japan)
Mark B. Ketchen (IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA)
Elisa Riedo (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA)
Venkataraman Swaminathan (U.S. Army Research, Picatinny, NJ, USA)
Thomas G. Thundat (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA)
- Term ending 31 December 2011
- David G. Cahill (University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA)
Madan Dubey (U. S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, USA)
Stephen M. Durbin (Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA)
Sangmin Jeon (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Korea)
Robert F. Karlicek, Jr. (New Radiant, Chelmsford, MA, USA)
Sterling E. McBride (Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, NJ, USA)
Brian G. Rodricks (Fairchild Imaging, Milpitas, CA, USA)
- 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)
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
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: +1 516-576-2416
Fax: +1 631-396-0060
E-mail: rsi@aip.org (contact for information on accepted papers in the production process)
