AIP Publishing, a division of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), has announced that its open access journal AIP Advances will now be indexed in several Thomson Reuters databases, which serve as vital scholarly resources for the international research community. This is an important milestone for the journal and is evidence of its impact on scientific research.
Thomson Reuters' editors use a number of tools to assess the scholarly merit of a journal being evaluated for coverage. Among the criteria established by the editors are timeliness of publication, quality of editorial content, international diversity of authors and editors, adherence to international editorial conventions, and the use of peer review.
Launched in 2011, AIP Advances will be indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (also known as SciSearch) of Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition and Current Contents/Physical Chemical and Earth Sciences, going back to Volume 1, Issue 1.
AIP Advances is an open access, online-only journal, covering all areas of applied physical science. All articles published in the journal are peer reviewed and assessed for originality and technical correctness. The significance of each article is evaluated by the community after publication through the implementation of commenting and ranking tools as well as via the posting of article-level metrics. Authors also retain copyright to their work and all articles published in the journal are made freely available to readers worldwide.
