About the Journal

 Journal "Recent Contributions to Physics” was founded in 1992. The founder and publisher of the journal is the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. The journal has a developed and approved cover and title pages with an indication of the institution, imprint of the issue, ISSN, eISSN, editorial board, editorial policy, publication ethics and website.

The journal is published 4 times a year.

Articles are registered in the CrossRef database and a DOI (digital object identifier) must be assigned to each author's article, which is used to provide citation, reference and output to electronic documents.

The journal is indexed by the Kazakhstan Citation Base (KazBC) of the National Center of Science and Technology Evolution (NCSTE).

The journal is indexed in the international citation database Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics). Journal impact factor (IF 2022) is 0.11.

The journal is indexed in an international scientific publications database with open access to high-quality indexing data for researchers and publishers: ResearchBib, Japan (Academic Resource Index), which freely archives various academic resources, including archives of journal articles / conferences, journal profile, research position and etc., and in the international scientometric base of scientific journals - Directory of Research Journal Indexing (DRJI) (India).

The journal is also placed in the Scientific Electronic Library elibrary.ru in open access for readers and is included in the analytical database "Russian Science Citation Index" (RSCI).

The editorial board of the journal includes leading Kazakhstan and foreign scientists.

The journal follows the policy of information openness and accessibility of authors' publications, articles are posted on the journal's website in three languages in full-text access.

 Goals and objectives of the journal

 The purpose of the journal is to provide information to potential and interested parties about the results of scientific research and promising research works.

The tasks of the journal:

- to provide a forum for the exchange of views and results of both theoretical and experimental research in all areas of physics and methods of teaching physics at universities;

- to provide authors of publications with high-quality editorial and publishing services;

- to provide a wide dissemination of new ideas and research results at the international level;

- combining scientific achievements with practical experience.

Thematic directions of the journal

 In the Journal “Recent Contributions to Physics” covers original scientific and review articles on topical issues of fundamental and applied research in the fields of physics. Articles are published in the following thematic sections:

  • theoretical physics;
  • physics of the nucleus and elementary particles;
  • astrophysics;
  • plasma physics;
  • physics of condensed matter and problems of materials science;
  • nanoscience;
  • thermal physics and theoretical heat engineering;
  • nonlinear physics;
  • radiophysics;
  • problems of teaching physics in higher education.

* The author(s) of the manuscript approved for publication in the journal are obliged to pay for publication in accordance with the approved price list for publication in the scientific journals of al-Farabi KazNU. According to the approved price list, payment for publication is 3000 tenge per page. In exceptional cases, if there are other sources of funding for the journal series, authors may be fully or partially exempted from payment for the publication of the article.

A receipt for payment for publication in pdf format is sent by the author(s) to the e-mail address of the editorial office of the journal.