Annalen der physik is one of the oldest scientific journals on physics and has been published since 1799. The journal publishes original peer-reviewed papers in the areas of experimental theoretical applied a mathematical physics and related areas. The current editor in chief is guido w Fuchs the journal is the successor to journal. Def physique published from 1790 until 1794 and noise journal de physique published from 1795 until 1797 the journal has been published under a variety of names during its history history originally annalen der physique was published in german from the 1950s to the 1980s the journal published in both German and English initially only foreign authors contributed articles in English but from the 1970s german-speaking authors increasingly wrote in English in order to reach an international audience after the German reunification in 1990 English became the only language of the journal. The importance of annalen der physik unquestionably peaked in 1905 with Albert Einstein's annus mirabilis papers in the 1920s the journal lost ground to the concurrent zeitschrift fur physique with a 1933 emigration wave. German language journals lost many of their best authors from 1944 to 1946 publication was interrupted because of World War two but resumed in 1947 and a Soviet occupation rule while zeitschrift fur physique moved to western Germany annalen der physik served physicists in East Germany after the German reunification the journal was acquired by wiley-vch a relaunch of the journal with new editor and new contents was announced for 2012. As a result of the 2012 relaunch annalen der physik now features a refocus scope an updated editorial board and new more modern designs editors the early editors-in-chief were. Friedrich Albrecht Carl gran Ludwig wilhelm gilbert johann christian po Gondorff gustav Heinrich wiedemann Paul carload begged ruder with each editor the numbering of volumes restarted from 1 the journal was often referred to by the editors name.

Gilbert's an Allen Poe Gandalf's annalynne wiedemann Zanna Len and so on or for short pog and weed and after drew de the work was divided between two editors experimentalists will have we known Edward gruene eizan and theoretician Max Planck in these times peer review was not yet standard Einstein for example just sent his manuscripts to plank who then subsequently published them notable published works some of the most famous papers published in annalen der physik were on stretched exponential relaxation by rudolf cole. Rauch and his son friedrich car out on the photoelectric effect by heinrich hertz on the theory blackbody radiation by Max Planck on capillarity by Albert Einstein the above-mentioned 1905 papers by Einstein on photons on Brownian motion on mass energy equivalence and on the special theory of relativity on the heat capacities of solids with quantized energy levels by Einstein on molecular motion near absolute zero by Einstein and Otto stern on the general theory of relativity by Einstein abstracting and indexing the journal is abstracted and indexed in chemical abstracts service compendex current contents physical chemical and earth sciences phys karlsruhe databases international nuclear information system data based in spec mathematical reviews mastiha net science Citation Index scopus VI ni TI zentralblatt math mathematics abstracts according to the journal reports the journal has a 2014 impact factor of three point 048 ranking it 12th out of 78 journals in the category physics multidisciplinary.