Medical Physics
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| description | Scientific journal |
| Area of Expertise | Physics , medicine , biology |
| language | English |
| publishing company | Wiley ( USA ) |
| First edition | 1974 |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| Impact Factor | 3,177 (2018) |
| editor | Jeffrey F. Williamson |
| Web link | www.medphys.org |
| ISSN (print) | 0094-2405 |
| ISSN (online) | 2473-4209 |
Medical Physics (abbreviation according to ISO 4 : .. Med Phys ) is a scientific journal with peer review , which exists since 1974 and of the publishing group John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine is published.
The thematic area of the articles in Medical Physics includes research on applications of theoretical and experimental physics and mathematics in medicine and human biology .
Medical Physics works on a hybrid financing model. In the standard case, access to the articles requires a paid subscription; However, for additional publication fees, authors can make their articlesavailable to readersas Open Access free of charge. The authors have a choice of different licenses.
With an Impact Factor (IF) of 3.177 for 2018, the journal ranks 35th out of 129 in the field of radiology , nuclear medicine and medical imaging in the statistics of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) . The ranking according to IF has thus deteriorated over the past few years; for the year 2000 the magazine was still in thirteenth place in its subject area out of 80 titles at the time. Regarding the absolute number of citations, the journal still ranks eighth in its category with 26,715 citations from 2018.
The Scientific Editor of Medical Physics is Jeffrey F. Williamson from Washington University ( USA ); his deputy is Shiva K. Das from the University of Michigan (also USA).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Journal Citation Reports. Institute for Scientific Information , accessed July 27, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Medical Physics. In: medphys.org. American Association of Physicists in Medicine , accessed May 7, 2017 .
- ^ Medical Physics. In: onlinelibrary.wiley.com. John Wiley & Sons , accessed May 7, 2017 .
- ^ Medical Physics: Editorial Board. In: medphys.org. American Association of Physicists in Medicine , accessed May 7, 2017 .