About Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research

Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research (PRST-PER) is a peer-reviewed online open-access journal sponsored by the American Physical Society (APS), the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) and the APS Forum on Education. The articles are published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

The journal covers the full range of experimental and theoretical research on the teaching and/or learning of physics. PRST-PER is distributed without charge and financed by publication charges to the authors or to the authors' institutions. The criteria for acceptance of articles include the high scholarly and technical standards of our other Physical Review journals. Authors may submit review articles, replication studies, and descriptions of the development and use of new assessment tools. Presentations of research techniques and methodology comparisons/critiques will be considered.

2011 JCR Data

Impact Factor: 0.902
5-Year Impact Factor: 1.336
Total Cites: 168
Immediacy Index: 0.100
Cited Half-life: 4.0

2011 Eigenfactor® Metrics

Eigenfactor® Score: 0.00104
Article Influence® Score: 0.501

2012 Publication Numbers

Number articles: 46
Number of pages: 572

2013 Publication Projections

Number of articles: 50
Number of pages: 650

2013 Publication Frequency

Volume 9 (2 issues)

2013 Subscription Rates

No charge or registration required

ISSN

1554-9178 (online)

Article Number

PRST-PER identifies articles by volume number and a six-digit article ID (instead of volume and page number), for example, Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 1, 010103 (2005). The article ID's are constructed so as to allow them to be assigned at the time of publication while keeping the articles within each issue ordered by subject heading. More information.

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