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Physical Review Letters: History, Science & Art

Physical Review Letters (PRL), established in 1958, is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal that is published 52 times per year by the American Physical Society. The journal is considered one of the most prestigious in the field of physics. Over a quarter of Physics Nobel Prize-winning papers between 1995 and 2017 were published in it.

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Physical Review Letters topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Science and Art as prominent areas in the source structure around Physical Review Letters.

Related topics
49
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
53
Extracted relationships
38
Concept neighborhoods
27
Bridge connections
53

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Scope · 25 topics
Abstracting, indexing, and impact factor · 13 topics
History · 6 topics
Overview · 5 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Publisher
American Physical Society (United States)
CODEN
PRLTAO
Discipline
Physics
Edited by
Rafael Fernandes · Robert Garisto · Abhishek Agarwal · Serena Dalena · Samindranath Mitra
Frequency
Weekly
History
1958–present

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

Scope

Abstracting, indexing, and impact factor

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Physical Review Letters connects Entity context

The extracted context around Physical Review Letters shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Physical Review Letters → American Physical Society's, Editor, He, It, Letters, Physical Review, Samuel Goudsmit, The Another extracted example is Physical Review Letters → Abstracts, Aerospace AbstractsMathematical ReviewsMedlineMetals AbstractsNuclear, Chemical AbstractsComputer, Control AbstractsCurrent Physics IndexElectrical, Electronics IndexEnergy Research AbstractsGeoRefINSPECInternational, Science AbstractsPhysics AbstractsPubSCIENCESPINWorld Aluminum. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Physical Review Letters

Top relations

related to history · 8
Physical Review Letters → American Physical Society's, Editor, He, It, Letters, Physical Review, Samuel Goudsmit, The
has impact · 6
Physical Review Letters → Abstracts, Aerospace AbstractsMathematical ReviewsMedlineMetals AbstractsNuclear, Chemical AbstractsComputer, Control AbstractsCurrent Physics IndexElectrical, Electronics IndexEnergy Research AbstractsGeoRefINSPECInternational, Science AbstractsPhysics AbstractsPubSCIENCESPINWorld Aluminum
Edited by · 5
Physical Review Letters → Abhishek Agarwal, Rafael Fernandes, Robert Garisto, Samindranath Mitra, Serena Dalena
related to Journal ranking summary · 5
Physical Review Letters → Journal, Science, Scopus, The, Web
ISSN · 2
Physical Review Letters → 0031-9007 (print) 1079-7114 (web), 1092-0145
CODEN · 1
Physical Review Letters → PRLTAO
Discipline · 1
Physical Review Letters → Physics
Frequency · 1
Physical Review Letters → Weekly
History · 1
Physical Review Letters → 1958–present
Impact factor · 1
Physical Review Letters → 9.4 (2025)

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

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Physical Review Letters relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 38 structured relationships around Physical Review Letters. Examples in this analysis include Physical Review Letters → CODEN → PRLTAO and Physical Review Letters → Discipline → Physics. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Physical Review LettersCODENPRLTAO1.00infobox
Physical Review LettersDisciplinePhysics1.00infobox
Physical Review LettersEdited byRafael Fernandes1.00infobox
Physical Review LettersEdited byRobert Garisto1.00infobox
Physical Review LettersEdited byAbhishek Agarwal1.00infobox
Physical Review LettersEdited bySerena Dalena1.00infobox
Physical Review LettersEdited bySamindranath Mitra1.00infobox
Physical Review LettersFrequencyWeekly1.00infobox
Physical Review LettersHistory1958–present1.00infobox
Physical Review LettersImpact factor9.4 (2025)1.00infobox
Physical Review LettersISO 4Phys. Rev. Lett.1.00infobox
Physical Review LettersISSN0031-9007 (print) 1079-7114 (web)1.00infobox
Physical Review LettersISSN1092-01451.00infobox
Physical Review LettersLanguageEnglish1.00infobox
Physical Review LettersLCCN590375431.00infobox
Physical Review LettersLicenseCC-BY 4.0 International license1.00infobox
Physical Review LettersOCLC no.17158341.00infobox
Physical Review LettersOpen accesspartial1.00infobox
Physical Review LettersPublisherAmerican Physical Society (United States)1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Physical Review Letters bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Review, Letters and Physical. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Physical Review Letters, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Physical Review Letters with Scope. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Physical Review LettersScope · splits 28 ⟂ 26
Physical Review LettersAbstracting, indexing, and impact factor · splits 40 ⟂ 14
Physical Review LettersHistory · splits 47 ⟂ 7
Physical Review LettersOverview · splits 48 ⟂ 6

Map overview Semantic statistics

Physical Review Letters

Nodes54
Edges53
Triples38
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.037037
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Physical Review Letters to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Science & Art, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Physical Review Letters · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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