The Central European Journal of Physics is a bimonthly peer-reviewed

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 scientific journal

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, which is co-published by Versita and Springer Science+Business Media

Springer Science+Business Media

- Selected publications :* Encyclopaedia of Mathematics* Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete * Graduate Texts in Mathematics * Grothendieck's Séminaire de géométrie algébrique...

. The founding editor-in-chief was Janos Lendvai (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

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), who was succeeded in 2004 by Vladimir E. Zakharov

Vladimir E. Zakharov

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 (University of Arizona

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 and Lebedev Physical Institute

Lebedev Physical Institute

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]) and in 2011 by Jonathan L. Feng (University of California, Irvine

University of California, Irvine

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). The journal covers research in all fields of physics

Physics

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. It publishes research

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 and review article

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s, and rapid and short communications.

Special issues

Occasionally, the journal publishes special issues on a specific topic. Some examples are:

• Solid state surfaces and interfaces (Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2009), guest editors: Reinhard Denecke, Józef Korecki, Emil Pinčik, Pavel Jelínek
  Pavel Jelínek
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• Advances in statistical physics (Vol. 7, No. 3, September 2009), guest editors: Constantino Tsallis
  Constantino Tsallis
  Constantino Tsallis is a naturalized Brazilian physicist working in Rio de Janeiro at CBPF, Brazil. He was born in Greece, and grew up in Argentina, where he studied physics at Instituto Balseiro, in Bariloche. In 1974 he received a Doctorat d'Etat et Sciences Physiques degree from the University...
  
  , Giorgio Kaniadakis, Anna Carbone, Antonio M. Scarfone
• Modern application of lasers (Vol. 8, No. 2, April 2010), guest editors: Maciej Bugajski, Michał Malinowski
• Nanoscience and nanotechnology (Vol. 9, No. 2, April 2011), guest editors: Asta Richter, Jerzy T. Sadowski

Abstracting and indexing

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• Academic OneFile
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• Aluminium Industry Abstracts
• Astrophysics Data System
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• CSA ASCE Civil Engineering Abstracts
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• Ceramic Abstracts - World Ceramics Abstracts
• Chemical Abstracts Service
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• Composites Industry Abstracts
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• Current Contents
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• Inspec
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• METADEX
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• Scopus
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• Science Citation Index Expanded
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• Solid States and Superconductivity Abstracts

According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal has a 2010 impact factor

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of 0.691.