Journal of Statistical Physics

The Journal of Statistical Physics is a biweekly publication containing both original and review papers, including book reviews. All areas of statistical physics as well as related fields concerned with collective phenomena in physical systems are covered.

Journal of Statistical Physics

Discipline	Physics
Language	English
Edited by	Giulio Biroli Eric Carlen Abhishek Dhar Irene Giardina Alessandro Giuliani Hal Tasaki
Publication details
History	1969–present
Publisher	Springer
Frequency	24/year
Impact factor	1.6 (2022)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Stat. Phys.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
CODEN	JSTPBS
ISSN	0022-4715 (print) 1572-9613 (web)
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Journal homepage

The journal was established by Howard Reiss. Joel L. Lebowitz is the honorary editor.

In the period 1969–1979 the journal published about 65 articles per year, while in the 1980–2016 period approximately 220 articles per year. In total, as to 2017, more than 9000 articles have appeared on this journal. According to Web of Science as of July 2017 the 10 most cited articles which have appeared on this journal are:

1. Tsallis, C, Possible generalization of Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics, J. Stat. Phys., vol. 52(1-2), 479–487, (1988). Times Cited: 4,245
2. Feigenbaum, MJ, Quantitative universality for a class of non-linear transformations, J. Stat. Phys., vol. 19(1), 25–52, (1978). Times Cited: 2,230
3. Sauer, T; Yorke, JA; Casdagli, M, Embedology, J. Stat. Phys., vol. 65(3-4), 579–616, (1991). Times Cited: 1,319
4. Wertheim, MS, Fluids with highly directional attractive forces. 1. Statistical thermodynamics, J. Stat. Phys., vol. 35(1-2), 19–34, (1984). Times Cited: 1,232
5. Wertheim, MS, Fluids with highly directional attractive forces. 3. Multiple attraction sites, J. Stat. Phys., vol. 42(3-4), 459–476, (1986). Times Cited: 1,109
6. Feigenbaum, MJ, Universal metric properties of non-linear transformations, J. Stat. Phys., vol. 21(6), 669–706, (1979). Times Cited: 1,071
7. Wertheim, MS, Fluids with highly directional attractive forces. 2. Thermodynamic perturbation-theory and integral-equations, J. Stat. Phys., vol. 35(1-2), 35–47, (1984). Times Cited: 1,051
8. Wertheim, MS, Fluids with highly directional attractive forces. 4. equilibrium polymerization, J. Stat. Phys., vol. 42(3-4), 477–492, (1986). Times Cited: 984
9. Voorhees, PW, The theory of Ostwald Ripening, J. Stat. Phys., vol. 38(1-2), 231–252, (1985). Times Cited: 820
10. Kirkpatrick, S, Optimization by simulated annealing - Quantitative studies, J. Stat. Phys., vol. 34(5-6), 975–986, (1984). Times Cited: 809

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: Astrophysics Data System, Chemical Abstracts Service, Science Citation Index, Scopus, and Zentralblatt MATH.