About the Journal

Focus and Coverage

Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data is published by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); content is published online daily, collected into quarterly online and printed issues (4 issues per year). The objective of the Journal is to provide critically evaluated physical and chemical property data, fully documented as to the original sources and the criteria used for evaluation, preferably with uncertainty analysis. Critical reviews of measurement techniques may also be included if they shed light on the accuracy of available data in a technical area. Papers reporting correlations of data or estimation methods are acceptable only if they are based on critical data evaluation and if they produce “reference data”—the best available values for the relevant properties. The journal is not intended as a publication outlet for original experimental measurements such as those normally reported in the primary research literature, nor for review articles of a descriptive or primarily theoretical nature.

One source of contributions to the Journal is The National Standard Reference Data System (NSRDS), which was established in 1963 as a means of coordinating on a national scale the production and dissemination of critically evaluated reference data in the physical sciences. Under the Standard Reference Data Act (Public Law 90-396) the National Institute of Standards and Technology of the U.S. Department of Commerce has the primary responsibility in the Federal Government for providing reliable scientific and technical reference data. The Standard Reference Data Program of NIST coordinates a complex of data evaluation centers, located in university, industrial, and other Government laboratories as well as within NIST, which are engaged in the compilation and critical evaluation of numerical data on physical and chemical properties retrieved from the world scientific literature. The participants in this NIST-sponsored program, together with similar groups under private or other Government support which are pursuing the same ends, compose the National Standard Reference Data System.

The primary focus of the NSRDS is on well-defined physical and chemical properties of well-characterized materials or systems. An effort is made to assess the accuracy of data reported in the primary research literature and to prepare compilations of critically evaluated data which will serve as reliable and convenient reference sources for the scientific and technical community.

 2011 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2012)*:

* Data from the 2011 Journal Citation Reports® Science Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2012).

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Co-Editors

Donald R. Burgess, Jr.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

Allan H. Harvey
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, USA

Robert L. Watters, Jr.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

Co-Editors, 2006-2007: Malcolm W. Chase, Jr. and Robert L. Watters, Jr.

Co-Editors, 2003-2005: Malcolm W. Chase, Jr. and John R. Rumble, Jr.

Editor, 1997-2002: Malcolm W. Chase, Jr.

Editor, 1993-1996: Jean W. Gallagher

Editor, 1972-1992: David R. Lide, Jr.

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Editorial Board

• Term ending 31 December 2012

  Karl K. Irikura (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA)

  Brian H. Toby (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA)

  Terrell A. Vanderah (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA)

  
  

• Term ending 31 December 2013

  James S. Chickos (University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO, USA)

  Yuri V. Ralchenko (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA)

  
  

• Term ending 31 December 2014

  Michael Frenkel (NIST, Boulder, CO, USA)

  Jeffrey D. Guthrie (Advanced Materials, Manufacturing, and Testing IAC, Rome, NY, USA)

  Mark Salomon (MaxPower, Inc., Harleysville, PA, USA)

• Term ending 31 December 2015

  Karl K. Irikura (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA)

  Brian H. Toby (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA)

  Terrell A. Vanderah (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA)

  
  

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Management Board

Robert L. Watters, Jr. (NIST)

Mark M. Cassar (AIP)

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Editorial Office

Contact the JPCRD Editorial Office at:

Editor, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data

National Institute of Standards and Technology

100 Bureau Drive

Mail Stop 2300

Gaithersburg, MD 20899-2300, USA
 

Telephone: 301-975-3774

Fax: 301-926-0416

E-mail: jpcrd@nist.gov
 

Editorial Staff: Linda Diane Decker

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AIP Production Office

Authors of accepted manuscripts may contact the AIP Production Office at:

Editorial Supervisor

J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data

American Institute of Physics

Suite 1NO1

2 Huntington Quadrangle

Melville, NY 11747-4502, USA
 

Telephone: +1 516-576-2299

Fax: +1 516-576-2233

E-mail: jpr@aip.org

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ISSN and CODEN

Print: ISSN 0047-2689
Online: ISSN 1529-7845
 

CODEN: JPCRBU

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