Reviews of Modern Physics (RMP) is the world’s premier physics review journal and the most highly cited Physical Review publication. Written by leading international researchers, RMP’s in-depth essays provide outstanding coverage of a topic and give context and background for current research trends.
Since 1929, RMP has provided an unrivaled venue for authoritative review papers in all fields of physics. RMP publishes two types of essay, Reviews and Colloquia. Review articles present the current status of a given topic, with historical background, a critical distillation of research progress, and a summary of possible future developments. Colloquia communicate results at the frontiers of physics, which may impact several subfields. RMP also publishes Nobel Lectures, text of the addresses given in conjunction with the awards.
Like all of the journals in the Physical Review family, RMP is shaped by researchers to serve the research community. This commitment ensures that its mission and standards prioritize the needs of researchers and authors, not commercial publishing interests. The journal is international, with approximately three-fifths of published articles originating from outside the U.S.
RMP covers the full range of applied, fundamental, and interdisciplinary physics research topics:
At the core of APS's mission is a commitment to meeting the needs of physicists, a community that has been at the leading edge of open access. Articles published in RMP benefit from the following initiatives:
RMP is managed by a professional editorial team of Ph.D. scientists with extensive research experience at major academic institutions around the world. The team consists of remote editors, who are active researchers in the array of topics published by the journal. All editorial decisions are based on RMP’s acceptance criteria.
All Physical Review journals, including Reviews of Modern Physics, follow a common set of Editorial Policies and Practices, which cover Editorial Oversight and Decision Making, Authorship, Submissions, Resubmissions, and Transfers, Peer Review, Ethics and Research Integrity, Post Publication, and Open Access and Publications Rights.
RMP is published electronically one article at a time. Articles are identified by volume number and a six digit article number, for example, Rev. Mod. Phys. 89, 025007 (2017).