Physical Communication

Physical Communication (PHYCOM) is a peer-reviewed journal from Elsevier devoted to the physical layer of communication systems, from waveform design and channel modelling through to experimental prototypes.《物理通信》（Physical Communication，缩写 PHYCOM）由 Elsevier 出版，是一本同行评议期刊，专注通信系统的物理层，选题从波形设计与信道建模一直延伸到实验样机。

Its pages carry theoretical contributions, applied and experimental reports, and tutorial reviews, and the title is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 1.9.该刊登载理论贡献、应用与实验报告以及教程式综述，被 Science Citation Index Expanded 收录，2025 年期刊影响因子为 1.9。

Scope

• The remit starts at the physical layer of wireless and wireline links and reaches the algorithms that turn sampled waveforms into reliable bit streams.报道范围从无线与有线链路的物理层起步，一直伸展到把采样波形转换为可靠比特流的各类算法。
• Wireless local area networks, WiMAX, wireless mesh networks, and both sensor and ad hoc networks are named as covered deployment settings.无线局域网、WiMAX、无线网状网络以及传感器网络与自组织网络，都被列为覆盖的部署场景。
• Physical-layer access protocols belong to the core subject matter, including scheduling and medium sharing at the air interface.物理层接入协议属于核心选题，涉及空口的调度与介质共享问题。
• Spread-spectrum signalling, channel modelling and propagation measurement form one of the oldest clusters in the journal's topic list.扩频信号、信道建模与传播测量构成该刊主题清单中最久远的一簇。
• Detection and estimation theory, synchronisation methods and error-control coding recur across regular issues and special collections alike.检测与估计理论、同步方法以及差错控制编码，在常规刊期与专刊中反复出现。
• Modulation and coding schemes, multiplexing and multicarrier transmission are examined analytically, by simulation and in hardware.调制与编码方案、复用以及多载波传输，既作解析推演，也经仿真与硬件验证。
• Broadband wireless access, personal communications and multiuser detection gain attention as commercial deployments move into new bands.宽带无线接入、个人通信与多用户检测，随着商用部署进入新频段而获得关注。
• Interference suppression, signal separation and wireless multimedia delivery appear wherever they hinge on physical-layer design choices.干扰抑制、信号分离与无线多媒体传输，凡取决于物理层设计取舍的都在其列。
• Digital signal processing for radio systems, together with experimental and prototype results, gives the title a pronounced engineering character.面向无线电系统的数字信号处理，连同实验与样机结果，赋予该刊鲜明的工程气质。
• Multiple-access techniques, space-time processing and tracking algorithms are treated as parts of one design space, which keeps the journal's readership unusually broad.多址技术、空时处理与跟踪算法被视作同一设计空间的组成部分，这使读者群显得格外宽泛。
• Resource allocation and radio resource management at the air interface draw steady submissions from the network optimisation community.空口的资源分配与无线资源管理，持续吸引网络优化方向的来稿。
• Multirate transmission, cross-layer design and optimisation sit on the boundary between the physical layer and the protocols above it.多速率传输、跨层设计与优化位于物理层与其上层协议的边界地带。
• Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing, multiple-input multiple-output systems and ultra-wideband signalling are listed by name among the topics of interest.正交频分复用、多输入多输出系统与超宽带信号，被逐一点名列入感兴趣的主题。
• Cognitive radio architecture, the platforms and hardware that support it, and dynamic spectrum sharing round out the declared coverage.认知无线电体系结构、支撑它的平台与硬件，以及动态频谱共享，补齐了公开申明的覆盖范围。
• Three article types are accepted, namely theoretical work introducing new techniques or analyses, applied work reporting experiments, and tutorials.该刊接受三类稿件，分别是提出新技术或新分析的理论工作、报告实验的应用工作以及教程。

History

• Elsevier opened Volume 1, Issue 1 in March 2008, giving physical-layer research a dedicated archival outlet while such work was scattered across broader networking titles.Elsevier 于 2008 年 3 月推出第 1 卷第 1 期，在物理层研究尚散落于综合性网络刊物的年代，为这一方向提供了专属的存档型发表园地。
• The launch description presented PHYCOM as an international and archival journal with complete coverage of topics relevant to everyone working on physical-layer communication.创刊说明把 PHYCOM 界定为国际性与存档型期刊，完整覆盖与物理层通信研究者相关的各类主题。
• Volume 1 held four numbered issues in 2008, and one volume a year carried the title through 2012, each of those volumes likewise divided into four issues.第 1 卷在 2008 年编为四个编号期，此后直到 2012 年每年仍只出一卷，卷内同样分作四期。
• From 2013 the volumes multiplied inside a single year, four a year through 2017 and six from 2018 onward, while issue numbers fell away altogether2013 年起卷次在一年之内增加，2013 年至 2017 年各出四卷，2018 年以后每年六卷，期号则完全消失。
• A citation now gives the volume and an article number, so a paper is cited as volume 74 or volume 76 without any issue in between, and volumes fill as manuscripts are accepted.引文如今只写卷次与文章编号，例如第 74 卷或第 76 卷，中间没有期号，各卷也随录用进度陆续填满。
• Selection for the Science Citation Index Expanded placed the title in two Journal Citation Reports categories, electrical and electronic engineering plus telecommunications.入选 Science Citation Index Expanded 之后，该刊在 Journal Citation Reports 中归入电气与电子工程以及电信学两个类目。
• In the 2025 release the Journal Impact Factor reads 1.9, the five-year figure 1.8 and the Journal Citation Indicator 0.41.2025 年发布的数据中，期刊影响因子为 1.9，五年影响因子为 1.8，期刊引文指标为 0.41。
• Category rank stands at 255 of 369 in ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC for a Q3 slot and 96 of 127 in TELECOMMUNICATIONS for Q4.类目排名为 ENGINEERING，ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC 第 255 位（共 369 种，Q3），TELECOMMUNICATIONS 第 96 位（共 127 种，Q4）。
• Total citations reached 2765 in the same dataset, against an annual output of about 323 articles and a cited half-life of 3.7 years.同一数据集的总被引为 2765 次，年发文约 323 篇，被引半衰期为 3.7 年。
• Five years of impact values moved inside a narrow band, from 1.81 in 2021 through 2.379 in 2022, 2.0 in 2023 and 2.2 in 2024 to 1.9 in 2025.五年间的影响因子在窄幅区间内摆动，2021 年为 1.81，2022 年为 2.379，2023 年为 2.0，2024 年为 2.2，2025 年为 1.9。
• A hybrid model governs access, so authors may pay an open-access charge while the subscription route stays open to everyone else.该刊采用混合模式，作者可支付开放获取费用，订阅通路对其余读者依然敞开。
• Gold open access accounted for 7.32 percent of 2025 content, a modest share consistent with the subscription base.金色开放获取占 2025 年内容的 7.32%，比例有限，与以订阅为主的格局相符。
• Editorial business is handled from Elsevier's Amsterdam office at Radarweg 29, the address the National Library of Medicine records for the title.编辑事务由 Elsevier 设在阿姆斯特丹 Radarweg 29 的办公室承担，美国国家医学图书馆为该刊著录的正是这个地址。
• Since 2015 the owning group has traded as RELX, yet the imprint on the journal has remained Elsevier throughout.其母集团自 2015 年起以 RELX 名义运营，而刊物上的出版印记始终是 Elsevier。

Editors

• The founding editor, Ian F. Akyildiz, signed a 'Passing the baton' editorial in volume 20, and the transfer of the chair is recorded in the journal's own pages rather than in outside notices.创刊主编（Ian F. Akyildiz）在第 20 卷写了一篇题为 Passing the baton 的社论，席位的交接因此留在刊物自身的版面上，无须外求。
• Tolga M. Duman of Bilkent University answered it with 'Receiving the baton' in the same volume, and the masthead still lists him as editor-in-chief.比尔肯特大学的（Tolga M. Duman）在同一卷以 Receiving the baton 作答，编页至今仍把他列为主编。
• Michail Matthaiou of Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland is listed with him, so the masthead currently carries a name from Bilkent and a name from Belfast.北爱尔兰贝尔法斯特女王大学的（Michail Matthaiou）与他并列于编页，主编名单眼下同时挂着比尔肯特与贝尔法斯特两家。
• Associate editors divide the subfields, so a manuscript on channel measurement and one on spectrum sharing may reach different board members.副编辑按子领域分工，信道测量类稿件与频谱共享类稿件可能落到不同编委手中。
• Board members come from universities and industrial research laboratories, and their affiliations are published on the editorial board page.编委来自高校与工业研究实验室，其单位信息公布在编委页面上。
• Manuscripts enter through Elsevier's Editorial Manager system, where authors pick the nearest subject area and upload their files.稿件经 Elsevier 的 Editorial Manager 系统投递，作者在其中勾选最接近的主题分类并上传文件。
• Referee names are kept from authors, the arrangement Elsevier calls single-anonymised review, while the reviewers themselves see who wrote the paper.审稿人姓名不向作者公开，Elsevier 把这套做法称作单盲评审，审稿人自己则看得到作者是谁。
• Referees are chosen for the subfield a paper falls in, and a revised manuscript goes back to the referees who saw the first version when they are still available.审稿人按论文所属子领域遴选，修回稿在原来那几位审稿人仍可参与时送回他们手中。
• Submissions centred on upper-layer protocol design fall outside the scope and are returned without full review.以上层协议设计为中心的投稿不属于本刊范围，会在未经完整评审的情况下退回。
• Guest-edited special issues run alongside regular submissions, and their calls appear on the journal's Elsevier page.客座编辑主持的专刊与常规投稿并行，其征稿通知发布在该刊的 Elsevier 页面上。
• Proposals for such collections are weighed by the editor-in-chief before a guest team is appointed.此类专刊的提案先由主编权衡，随后才确定客座编辑团队。
• The three article types travel on separate tracks, since a tutorial is judged on coverage and clarity while a theoretical paper is judged on the novelty of its analysis.三类稿件分轨评审，教程按覆盖是否周全、行文是否清楚来判，理论文章则按分析的创新程度来判。
• Corrections and retractions follow the publisher's publication-ethics procedure, and a paper that is withdrawn keeps its place with a notice attached to it.更正与撤稿依出版方的出版伦理程序处理，被撤下的论文仍留在原处，附一条声明。
• Editorial correspondence goes to the Amsterdam office, while technical questions about a submission are routed through the online system.编辑事务的信件寄往阿姆斯特丹办公室，与投稿相关的技术问题则通过在线系统转达。