pss60 - 3 × 60 Anniversary Articles and More News from physica status solidi

摘要

This month it will be exactly 60 years since the first issue of theoriginal journal physica status solidi was published by Akademie-Verlag Berlin. While in its first three decades it served as a growingEast-West scientific forum for solid state physics (see here fora detailed historical overview), since 1990 it has successfullyevolved into a family of journals with truly international authorandreadership in an increasingly globalized scientific world.Despite of an ever-increasing number of, mostly interdisciplinary,competitor journals, pss has maintained its position withstable or even increasing submission numbers. The journalscover a wide range of topics in materials, condensed matter,applied and device physics, also touching adjacent areas likebroader materials science, engineering, physical chemistry,optics, and fundamental or theoretical physics. All three journalsenjoy increased citation counts and (just published) higherImpact Factors (IF): pss (RRL): 2.821, pss (a): 1.981, pss (b):1.710. Web of Science's new faster indexing policy and IFcalculation process, which now includes Early View articles, alsocontributed to this great result. In addition, our flagship journalpss (RRL) is now already in its 15th year, giving us even morereason to celebrate.