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Review of Scientific Instruments

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Review of Scientific Instruments (RSI) is a monthly journal, published by The American Institute of Physics, devoted to scientific instruments, apparatus, and techniques. Its contents include original and review articles on instruments in physics, chemistry, and the life sciences; book reviews; and sections on new instruments and new materials. One volume is published annually. Conference proceedings are occasionally published and supplied in addition to the Journal's scheduled monthly issues.

Editorial policy is to interpret the term "scientific instruments" in the widest sense, as all of the tools of the scientist. We publish information on instruments, apparatus, techniques of experimental measurement, and related mathematical analysis. Since the use of instruments is not confined to the physical sciences, we welcome contributions from any of the physical and biological sciences and from related cross-disciplinary areas of science and technology.

Review Articles are invited reviews of selected topics in scientific instrumentation and experimental techniques contributed by experts in the field. Regular Articles are full-length papers describing original work on significant new ideas in instruments and measurement. Normally some data demonstrating the performance of an instrument should be included; proposals for a new instrument without such demonstration are acceptable only if they include significant analysis of the characteristics of the proposed techniques. Mathematics related to particular instruments or to measurements science is appropriate. Notes are short contributions, limited to three (3) printed pages in length; in general, a Note is appropriate for a restricted topic which can be dealt with in a brief text. Letters to the Editor often discuss issues in previously published articles, frequently accompanied by a reply from the original authors. However, they may be devoted to information or comments of a more general nature.