Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications is an Elsevier journal that began in 1975 and publishes fundamental and applied research in statistical physics. It emphasises statistical mechanics methods for systems across many scales, and its 2025 impact factor is 3.3.《物理 A 统计力学及其应用》是爱思唯尔出版的期刊，始于 1975 年，发表统计物理领域的基础与应用研究。该刊侧重把统计力学方法用于跨越多个尺度的系统，2025 年影响因子为 3.3。

Scope

• The journal publishes fundamental and applied research in the field of statistical physics.该刊发表统计物理领域的基础与应用研究。

• It emphasises statistical mechanics methods, and a paper is expected to use them rather than to mention them.该刊侧重统计力学方法，论文应当使用这些方法而不只是提及它们。

• Systems at the microscopic, the mesoscopic and the macroscopic scale are all within its reach.微观，介观与宏观尺度的系统都在其范围之内。

• Soft matter is a named application domain, and the statistical mechanics of colloids and polymers is studied.软物质是一个列出的应用领域，胶体与聚合物的统计力学受到研究。

• Condensed matter is named beside it, so the behaviour of glasses and of complex fluids has a place.凝聚态与之并列列出，因此玻璃与复杂流体的行为有其位置。

• Biological systems appear among the domains, and a model may be built for a process in a cell or in a population.生物系统出现在这些领域之中，可以为细胞或群体中的某一过程建立模型。

• Socio-economic systems are covered, since the tools of the field have been applied to markets and to opinion.社会经济系统也在覆盖之列，因为该领域的工具曾被用于市场与舆论。

• Networks and their statistics are taken as subjects, and a paper may study how a structure shapes a flow.网络及其统计被当作选题接收，论文可以研究结构如何塑造流动。

• Phase transitions and critical phenomena are central, since they are where the methods of the field show their power.相变与临界现象是核心，因为这些正是该领域方法显现力量之处。

• Applied studies are welcome when they draw a clear line to statistical physics.应用研究在明确连向统计物理时受到欢迎。

• Non-equilibrium dynamics is studied, so a system driven away from rest falls inside the programme.非平衡动力学受到研究，因此被驱离静止的系统属于该刊选题。

• Random walks and stochastic processes appear among the tools a paper may use.随机游走与随机过程出现在论文可能使用的工具之中。

• Numerical simulation is accepted, and a result may rest on a model rather than on a measurement.数值模拟会被接收，结果可以依托模型而非测量。

• The journal prints work on the statistical mechanics of a lattice model as well as on the analysis of data drawn from a market, and in both cases it asks for a clear link to the theory.该刊既刊载格点模型的统计力学，也刊载取自市场的数据分析，并在两种情形下都要求与理论有明确联系。

• A paper may report an exact solution of a model, and the editors regard a closed result as useful even when no experiment tests it yet.论文可以报告某一模型的精确解，编辑认为即便尚无实验检验，一个封闭的结果也有用。

• Computer simulation is taken as a method, and a study may rest on the statistics of many runs rather than on a single one.计算机模拟被当作一种方法接收，研究可以依托多次运行的统计而非单次运行。

• The journal covers the thermodynamics of a small system, where the usual limits do not hold and new tools are needed.该刊覆盖小系统的热力学，在那里通常的极限不再成立，需要新的工具。

• Random matrix theory appears among the subjects, since it links the spectrum of a system to its statistics.随机矩阵理论出现在选题之中，因为它把系统的谱与其统计相联系。

• The journal takes work on percolation and on the geometry of a random medium.该刊接收逾渗与随机介质几何方面的工作。

• Entropy and information appear as tools, and a paper may use them to characterise a complex system.熵与信息作为工具出现，论文可以用它们刻画复杂系统。

• Work on anomalous diffusion is welcome, since transport that does not follow the simple law is common in crowded media.反常扩散方面的工作受到欢迎，因为不遵循简单规律的输运在拥挤介质中很常见。

• The journal covers the statistics of a network, and a paper may study how the degrees of its nodes are distributed.该刊覆盖网络的统计，论文可以研究其节点度如何分布。

• A study of a socio-economic model is taken when the model is built with the tools of statistical physics and is stated as such.社会经济模型的研究在该模型以统计物理工具构建并如此说明时会被接收。

• The journal takes work on critical exponents and on the universality that groups unlike systems together.该刊接收临界指数与把不同系统归为一类的普适性方面的工作。

• The journal prints work on the transport of heat through a non-uniform medium, and it asks for the model to be stated plainly.该刊刊载热量通过非均匀介质输运的工作，并要求把模型清楚地表述出来。

• A paper may study the statistics of a rare event, since such an event often decides what happens to a system.论文可以研究罕见事件的统计，因为此类事件常决定系统的走向。

• The journal takes work on self-organised criticality and on the avalanches it produces.该刊接收自组织临界性及其所产生雪崩方面的工作。

• Fracture and the statistics of a breaking medium appear among its subjects.断裂与介质破裂的统计出现在其选题之中。

• The journal covers the statistical mechanics of a granular material, where the grains interact by contact alone.该刊覆盖颗粒材料的统计力学，其中颗粒仅通过接触相互作用。

• Work on synchronisation is taken, and a paper may ask when a set of coupled oscillators falls into step.同步方面的工作会被接收，论文可以追问一组耦合振子何时步调一致。

• The journal prints work on game theory when it is set out in the language of statistical physics.该刊刊载博弈论方面的工作，条件是以统计物理的语言表述。

• The journal prints work on the flow of traffic, which has been studied as a many-particle system.该刊刊载交通流方面的工作，它曾被当作多粒子系统来研究。

• A paper may study the statistics of an epidemic, since the spread of an infection follows a stochastic path.论文可以研究疫情的统计，因为感染的传播沿随机路径进行。

History

• The parent title Physica began in 1921 as a journal of the Netherlands Physical Society.母刊《物理》于 1921 年作为荷兰物理学会的期刊创办。

• Physica was split into three parts in 1975, and this journal is the first of them.《物理》于 1975 年分为三辑，该刊是其中的第一辑。

• It is published by Elsevier, from the house that was long known as North-Holland.该刊由爱思唯尔出版，出自长期以 North-Holland 为人知的那家机构。

• Twenty-four issues appear in a year, so the title is semimonthly.该刊每年出版二十四期，因此为半月刊。

• The print number is 0378-4371 and the electronic number 1873-2119.其印本刊号为 0378-4371，电子刊号为 1873-2119。

• The title is recognised by the European Physical Society.该刊获得欧洲物理学会的认可。

• Its impact factor was 3.263 for 2021 and 3.3 for 2025, with a five-year figure of 2.9.其影响因子 2021 年为 3.263，2025 年为 3.3，五年影响因子为 2.9。

• The journal records a CiteScore of 6.7.该刊的 CiteScore 为 6.7。

• It is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and in Scopus.该刊被科学引文索引扩展版与 Scopus 收录。

• Publication runs on a hybrid model, and an author who wants open access pays a charge.出版采用混合模式，希望开放获取的作者需支付一笔费用。

• The journal keeps an archive that goes back to its first volume.该刊维护可回溯至其第一卷的档案。

• Old issues of the parent title are available as well, so the record reaches 1921.母刊的旧期同样可得，因此记录上溯至 1921 年。

• Special issues are organised from time to time, and a call sets out the subject of each.专辑不时组织出版，征稿启事列明各辑的主题。

Editors

• (Joseph Indekeu) is the editor-in-chief of the journal.（Joseph Indekeu）是该刊主编。

• He is an emeritus professor of physics at KU Leuven in Belgium.他是比利时 KU Leuven 的物理学荣休教授。

• He has held the post since 2019, as his own account of his work records.据其本人对工作的记述，他自 2019 年起担任此职。

• A group of main editors works with him, and the publisher names them on the journal's pages.一组主编辑与他合作，出版方在该刊页面上列出他们。

• An editorial board of more than sixty members covers twenty-three countries.一个六十余人，覆盖二十三个国家的编委会承担评审。

• Italy, the United States and Brazil are among the countries that contribute the most members.意大利，美国与巴西是贡献成员最多的国家之一。

• Editors are added from time to time, and the publisher announces each new appointment.编辑不时增补，出版方公布每一次新的任命。

• A manuscript is read by an editor and by reviewers who know its subject.稿件由一位编辑与了解其主题的评审人阅读。

• The editors state that a paper which uses the tools only in passing is not taken.编辑声明只顺带使用这些工具的论文不会被接收。