Co-owned by the Institute of Physics and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, New Journal of Physics (NJP) is an open-access journal publishing original research and topical reviews across the whole of physics. The journal’s Editorial Board and staff are committed to building NJP into the leading scientific journal in its field by publishing articles of outstanding scientific quality that merit the attention and interest of the whole physics community. NJP is available free to readers around the world and is funded by article publication charges.

Subject coverage

NJP’s coverage extends across the whole of physics, encompassing pure, applied, theoretical and experimental research, as well as interdisciplinary topics. Research areas covered by the journal include:

Quantum physics (including quantum information)
Atomic and molecular physics
Optics
Condensed matter
Surface science
Nanoscale science
Photonics and device physics
Soft matter and polymers
Chemical physics
Statistical mechanics, thermodynamics and nonlinear systems
Fluid dynamics
Plasmas
Nuclear physics
High energy particle physics
Cosmology and astrophysics
Biological and medical physics
Earth science and geophysics