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physics-reports
Use when targeting Physics Reports (Phys Rep) or deciding whether a long, comprehensive invited review across any area of physics fits this Elsevier review journal (Physics Letters C heritage). Encodes the journal's fit, framing, evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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# Physics Reports (physics-reports)
## Journal positioning
Physics Reports is Elsevier's review journal, originating as Physics Letters C, that publishes long, comprehensive review articles across the full breadth of physics. Its defining character is monograph-scale depth: a Physics Reports article is intended to become the standard reference on its topic, exhaustively surveying the theory, methods, results, and open problems of an active field. Reviews are typically invited but the journal also considers proposals, and the expected length is far beyond a normal journal article — often dozens to over a hundred pages. The currency is completeness, pedagogical clarity for working physicists, and lasting reference value, not brevity. Readership is the specialist and graduate-student community of the relevant subfield plus physicists entering it. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before proposing or submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the Physics Reports Elsevier site.
## When to trigger
- The author is considering a comprehensive, monograph-length review of a physics field for Physics Reports.
- A leading group wants to consolidate a mature or rapidly maturing subfield into a definitive reference work.
- An author is choosing between Physics Reports, Reviews of Modern Physics, and Nature Reviews Physics for a long authoritative review.
- The author needs Physics Reports' depth and length expectations, proposal/invitation process, and desk-reject criteria before drafting.
## Scope & topic fit