Physica Status Solidi - Rapid Research Letters

Aims & Scope

Physica status solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters was designed to offer extremely fast publication times and is currently one of the fastest double peer-reviewed publication media in solid state and materials physics.

Average times are 11 days from submission to first editorial decision, and 12 days from acceptance to online publication.

It communicates important findings with a high degree of novelty and need for express publication, as well as other results of immediate interest to the solid-state physics and materials science community.

Published Letters require approval by at least two independent reviewers.

The journal covers topics such as preparation, structure and simulation of advanced materials, theoretical and experimental investigations of the atomistic and electronic structure, optical, magnetic, superconducting, ferroelectric and other properties of solids, nanostructures and low-dimensional systems as well as device applications.

Rapid Research Letters particularly invites papers from interdisciplinary and emerging new areas of research.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2
2024	2.50

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.609

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	83

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	9525

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	1641

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Materials Science and Physics and Astronomy, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Effects of heavy alkali elements in Cu(In,Ga)Se₂solar cells with efficiencies up to 22.6%

  Citation: 1381

  Authors: Philip, Roland, Dimitrios, Erwin, Wolfram, Michael

• Properties of Cu(In,Ga)Se₂ solar cells with new record efficiencies up to 21.7%

  Citation: 839

  Authors: Philip, Dimitrios, Roland, Oliver, Andreas, Theresa Magorian, Michael

• Colossal dielectric constant in high entropy oxides

  Citation: 573

  Authors: David, Sylvain, Diana, Arun Kumar, Nita

• Compositional investigation of potassium doped Cu(In,Ga)Se₂solar cells with efficiencies up to 20.8%

  Citation: 490

  Authors: Philip, Dimitrios, Roland, Wiltraud, Michael

• Floquet topological insulators

  Citation: 409

  Authors: Jérôme, Balázs, Ferenc, Roderich

• A luminescent solar concentrator with 7.1% power conversion efficiency

  Citation: 373

  Authors: L. H., E. E., A. R., T., M., R. P., E. D., A.

• Identification of excitons, trions and biexcitons in single-layer WS₂

  Citation: 326

  Authors: Gerd, Philipp, Julia, Nicola, Christoph, Christian, Tobias

• 250 µm long anodic TiO₂ nanotubes with hexagonal self‐ordering

  Citation: 291

  Authors: Sergiu P., Andrei, Jan M., Patrik

• Electronic structure, chemical bonding and elastic properties of the first thorium‐containing nitride perovskite TaThN₃

  Citation: 262

  Authors: V. V., I. R., A. L.

• Materials with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy for magnetic random access memory

  Citation: 231

  Authors: R., H., S. N.

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