Annalen der Physik

Not to be confused with Annals of Physics.

Annalen der Physik
Abbreviated title (ISO)	Ann. der Physik, Ann. Phys. (Berlin)
Discipline	Physics
Language	English
Edited by	Ulrich Eckern
Publication details
Publisher	Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA (Germany)
Publication history	1799–present
Frequency	12/year
Open access	Free access for 1799-1940 issues
Impact factor (2009)	1.844
Indexing
ISSN	0003-3804 (print) 1521-3889 (web)
LCCN	50013519
OCLC number	5854993
Links
Journal homepage Introduction page

Annalen der Physik (Annals of Physics) is one of the oldest (since 1799) physics journals worldwide. The journal publishes original, peer-reviewed papers in the areas of experimental, theoretical, applied and mathematical physics and related areas. The current editor in chief is Ulrich Eckern.

The journal is the successor to Journal der Physik published from 1790 until 1794, and Neues Journal der Physik published from 1795 until 1797.^[1] The journal has been published under a variety of names (Annalen der Physik, Annalen der Physik und der physikalischen Chemie, Annalen der Physik und Chemie) during its history.

History

Originally, Annalen der Physik was published in German. From the 1950s to the 1980s, the journal published in both German and English. First, only foreign authors contributed articles in English, but from the 1970s German-speaking authors increasingly wrote in English in order to reach an international audience. After the German reunification in 1990, English became the only language of the journal.

The importance of Annalen der Physik unquestionably peaked in 1905 with Albert Einstein's annus mirabilis papers. In the 1920s, the journal lost ground to the concurrent Zeitschrift für Physik. With the 1933 emigration wave, German-language journals lost many of their best authors. From 1944–1946 publication was interrupted because of World War II, but resumed in 1947 under Soviet occupation rule. While Zeitschrift für Physik moved to Western Germany, Annalen der Physik served physicists in East Germany. After the German reunification, the journal was acquired by Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, a subsidiary of John Wiley & Sons.

A relaunch of the journal with new editor and new contents is announced for 2012.^[2]

Editors

The early editors-in-chief were:

• Friedrich Albrecht Carl Gren (1790–1797) (as Journal der Physik and Neues Journal der Physik)
• Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert (1799–1824) (as Annalen der Physik and Annalen der Physik und der physikalischen Chemie)
• Johann Christian Poggendorff (1824–1876) (as Annalen der Physik und Chemie)
• Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann (1877–1899) (as Annalen der Physik und Chemie)
• Paul Karl Ludwig Drude (1900–1906) (as Annalen der Physik)

With each editor, the numbering of volumes restarted from 1 (co-existent with a continuous numbering, a perpetual source of confusion).^[1] The journal was often referred to by the editor's name: Gilberts Annalen, Poggendorfs Annalen, and so on, or for short Pogg. Ann., Wied. Ann.

After Drude, the work was divided between two editors:

• experimentalists Wilhelm Wien (1907–1928) and Eduard Grüneisen (1929–1949), and
• theoretician Max Planck (1907–1943, had been associate editor from 1895).

In these times, peer-review was not yet standard. Einstein just sent his manuscripts to Planck who gave them into print.

Notable published works

Some of the most famous papers published in Annalen der Physik were:

• on stretched exponential relaxation by Rudolf Kohlrausch and his son Friedrich Kohlrausch (1854),^[3][4]
• on the photoelectric effect by Heinrich Hertz (1887),^[5]
• on the theory of blackbody radiation by Max Planck (1901),^[6]
• on capillarity by Albert Einstein (1901),^[7]
• the above mentioned 1905 papers by Einstein on photons,^[8] on brownian motion,^[9] on mass–energy equivalence,^[10] and on the special theory of relativity,^[11]
• on the heat capacities of solids with quantized energy levels by Einstein (1907),^[12]
• on molecular motion near absolute zero by Einstein and Otto Stern (1913),^[13]
• on the general theory of relativity by Einstein (1916)^[14]

Indexing

The journal is indexed in:

• Chemical Abstracts Service
• Compendex
• Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences
• FIZ Karlsruhe Databases
• International Nuclear Information System Database
• INSPEC
• Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition
• Mathematical Reviews/MathSciNet
• Science Citation Index Expanded
• Science Citation Index
• SCOPUS
• VINITI
• Web of Science
• Zentralblatt MATH/Mathematics Abstracts

See also

• List of physics journals
• Annals of Physics

References

1. ^ ^{a b} http://www.physik.uni-augsburg.de/annalen/history/history.html
2. ^ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291521-3889/homepage/Relaunch.html (retrieved 17-aug-2011).
3. ^ R. Kohlraushch (1854). "Theorie des elektrischen Rückstandes in der Leidener nasche". Annalen der Physik und Chemie 167 (1): 56–82. Bibcode 1854AnP...167...56K. doi:10.1002/andp.18541670103. 
4. ^ R. Kohlraushch (1854). "Theorie des elektrischen Rückstandes in der Leidener nasche". Annalen der Physik und Chemie 167 (2): 179–214. Bibcode 1854AnP...167..179K. doi:10.1002/andp.18541670203. 
5. ^ H. Hertz (1887). "Ueber einen Einfluss des ultravioletten Lichtes auf die electrische Entladung". Annalen der Physik 267 (8): 983–1000. Bibcode 1887AnP...267..983H. doi:10.1002/andp.18872670827. http://books.google.com/books?id=79SWAAAAIAAJ&dq=Annalen%20der%20Physik%20und%20Chemie%20hertz%201887&pg=PA983#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
6. ^ M. Planck (1901). "Ueber das Gesetz der Energieverteilung im Normalspectrum". Annalen der Physik 309 (3): 553–563. Bibcode 1901AnP...309..553P. doi:10.1002/andp.19013090310. http://www.physik.uni-augsburg.de/annalen/history/historic-papers/1901_309_553-563.pdf. 
7. ^ A. Einstein (1901). "Folgerungen aus den Capillaritätserscheinungen". Annalen der Physik 309 (3): 513–523. Bibcode 1901AnP...309..513E. doi:10.1002/andp.19013090306. http://www.physik.uni-augsburg.de/annalen/history/einstein-papers/1901_4_513-523.pdf. 
8. ^ A. Einstein (1905). "Über einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichtspunkt". Annalen der Physik 322 (6): 132–148. Bibcode 1905AnP...322..132E. doi:10.1002/andp.19053220607. http://www.physik.uni-augsburg.de/annalen/history/einstein-papers/1905_17_132-148.pdf. 
9. ^ A. Einstein (1905). "Über die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie der Wärme geforderte Bewegung von in ruhenden Flüssigkeiten suspendierten Teilchen". Annalen der Physik 322 (8): 549–560. Bibcode 1905AnP...322..549E. doi:10.1002/andp.19053220806. http://www.physik.uni-augsburg.de/annalen/history/einstein-papers/1905_17_549-560.pdf. 
10. ^ A. Einstein (1905). "Ist die Trägheit eines Körpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhängig?". Annalen der Physik 323 (13): 639–641. Bibcode 1905AnP...323..639E. doi:10.1002/andp.19053231314. http://www.physik.uni-augsburg.de/annalen/history/einstein-papers/1905_18_639-641.pdf. 
11. ^ A. Einstein (1905). "Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper". Annalen der Physik 322 (10): 891–921. Bibcode 1905AnP...322..891E. doi:10.1002/andp.19053221004. http://www.physik.uni-augsburg.de/annalen/history/einstein-papers/1905_17_891-921.pdf. 
12. ^ A. Einstein (1906). "Die Plancksche Theorie der Strahlung und die Theorie der spezifischen Wärme". Annalen der Physik 327 (1): 180–190. Bibcode 1906AnP...327..180E. doi:10.1002/andp.19063270110. http://www.physik.uni-augsburg.de/annalen/history/einstein-papers/1907_22_180-190.pdf. 
13. ^ A. Einstein, O. Stern (1913). "Einige Argumente für die Annahme einer molekularen Agitation beim absoluten Nullpunkt". Annalen der Physik 345 (3): 551–560. Bibcode 1913AnP...345..551E. doi:10.1002/andp.19133450309. http://www.physik.uni-augsburg.de/annalen/history/einstein-papers/1913_40_551-560.pdf. 
14. ^ A. Einstein (1916). "Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie". Annalen der Physik 354 (7): 769–822. Bibcode 1916AnP...354..769E. doi:10.1002/andp.19163540702. http://www.physik.uni-augsburg.de/annalen/history/einstein-papers/1916_49_769-822.pdf. 

External links

• Annalen der Physik website