Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry is an annual peer-reviewed review journal published by the nonprofit publisher Annual Reviews in the United States, which has surveyed significant developments across the whole field of physical chemistry since its first volume in 1950 and carried a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 9.5《物理化学年鉴》（Annual Review of Physical Chemistry）是美国非营利出版机构（Annual Reviews）出版的年刊型同行评审综述期刊，自 1950 年首卷起纵览物理化学各领域的重大进展，2025 年影响因子为 9.5。

Scope

• The journal covers significant developments in the field of physical chemistry, treating its material in authoritative and integrated review form rather than as primary research reports该刊以权威而综合的综述形式（而非原始研究报告）梳理物理化学领域的重大进展。
• Named subject areas include biophysical chemistry, chemical kinetics, colloids, electrochemistry, geochemistry and cosmochemistry, chemistry of the atmosphere and climate, and laser chemistry with ultrafast processes官方列出的主题领域包括生物物理化学、化学动力学、胶体、电化学、地球化学与宇宙化学、大气与气候化学，以及激光化学与超快过程。
• Further declared topics take in the liquid state, magnetic resonance, physical organic chemistry, and polymers and macromolecules, and the editors state that the coverage extends to more fields still官方还列出液态、磁共振、物理有机化学以及高分子与高分子材料等主题，并称覆盖范围仍在继续扩展。
• Articles are critical literature reviews written upon invitation from the editorial committee, while unsolicited proposals are also accepted and evaluated, and the publisher states that it charges no author fees文章为受编辑委员会邀请撰写的批判性文献综述，同时也接收并评估非约稿的选题提案，出版方声明不向作者收取任何费用。
• Each title forms a single annual volume, with Reviews in Advance released online ahead of the volume, and the journal has been published open access through the publisher's Subscribe to Open program since 2023该刊每年出版一卷，另有先期在线综述（Reviews in Advance）提前于卷册上线，并自 2023 年起通过出版方的（Subscribe to Open）计划以开放获取方式出版。
• It is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and holds the first quartile in the Chemistry, Physical category with a rank of 37 out of 191 titles该刊被（Science Citation Index Expanded）收录，在物理化学类位居第一四分位，于 191 种刊中排名第 37 位。

History

• The title was launched in 1950, when its first volume carried an October 1950 publication date, and it has continued under the same name and print ISSN 0066-426X ever since该刊创刊于 1950 年，首卷标注 1950 年 10 月出版，此后一直以同一刊名与纸本刊号延续至今。
• The publisher Annual Reviews is a nonprofit organization founded in 1932 at Stanford University by the physical chemist J. Murray Luck, whose earliest series was the Annual Review of Biochemistry出版方（Annual Reviews）是 1932 年由物理化学家（J. Murray Luck）在斯坦福大学创办的非营利机构，其最早的系列刊物为《生物化学年鉴》。
• The earliest article deposited under the journal's ISSN in the DOI registry dates from October 1950 and is Farrington Daniels's review Chemical Kinetics in volume 1以该刊刊号提交至（DOI）注册机构的最早文章出自 1950 年 10 月，即第 1 卷中（Farrington Daniels）的综述《化学动力学》（Chemical Kinetics）。^[1]
• Volume numbering has run without interruption from volume 1 in 1950 to volume 76 for 2025 and volume 77 for 2026, one volume a year卷号自 1950 年第 1 卷起连续递增，至 2025 年为第 76 卷、2026 年为第 77 卷，每年一卷。
• Its Journal Impact Factor stood at 12.703 in 2021 and 11.7 in 2024 before easing to 9.5 in 2025其影响因子 2021 年为 12.703，2024 年为 11.7，2025 年回落至 9.5。

Editors

• The journal is led by two co-editors, Theodore Goodson III of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Michigan and Anne B. McCoy, Natt-Lingafelter Endowed Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Washington该刊由两位共同主编主持，即密歇根大学化学系的（Theodore Goodson III）与华盛顿大学化学系（Natt-Lingafelter）讲席教授（Anne B. McCoy）。
• Its editorial committee includes Joel D. Eaves of the University of Colorado Boulder and Naomi S. Ginsberg of the Department of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley其编辑委员会成员包括科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的（Joel D. Eaves）与加州大学伯克利分校物理系的（Naomi S. Ginsberg）。
• Further committee members are Gerhard Hummer, managing director of the Department of Theoretical Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, and Marsha I. Lester, Christopher H. Brown Distinguished Professor at the University of Pennsylvania其他委员包括马克斯·普朗克生物物理研究所理论生物物理系执行主任（Gerhard Hummer）与宾夕法尼亚大学（Christopher H. Brown）讲席教授（Marsha I. Lester）。
• Gabriela S. Schlau-Cohen of the Department of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology also sits on the committee, which plans and invites each annual volume and is renewed year by year麻省理工学院化学系的（Gabriela S. Schlau-Cohen）亦为委员，该委员会负责规划与约稿每一卷，并逐年更替。
• Earlier volumes were guided by Mark A. Johnson and Todd J. Martinez, who wrote the preface to volume 63 in 2012早期卷册由（Mark A. Johnson）与（Todd J. Martinez）主持，二人为 2012 年第 63 卷撰写了序言。^[2]
• Illustration editing and production rest with the publisher's own staff, with Erin Hunter recorded as illustration editor for the series插图与制作由出版方团队承担，该系列记录的插图编辑为（Erin Hunter）。