Journal of Neutron Research

Impact Factor
2023
1.1
CiteScore
2023
1.6

Volume

25, 4 issues

Latest issue

25:2 online 04 August 2023

Next issue

25:3 scheduled for November 2023

Back volumes

From volume 1, 1993

ISSN print

1023-8166

ISSN online

1477-2655

Aims & Scope

The Journal of Neutron Research publishes original research papers of an experimental and theoretical nature in four areas of specialisation in neutron research:

  • Research Science with Neutrons
  • Neutron Instrumentation and Techniques
  • Reactor and Spallation Source Technology
  • Neutron Simulation Tools, Data Reduction and Analysis

Short workshop or conference proceedings may also be published and from time to time review articles will be considered. While the editors encourage contributions in the above special fields, research papers and short reports in other areas of neutron science, especially those without an obvious traditional journal home, will also be considered for publication.

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Eddy Lelièvre-Berna
Services for Advanced Neutron Environments
Institut Laue-Langevin

71 Avenue des Martyrs, CS 20156
38042 Grenoble Cedex 9
France

Email: lelievre@ill.eu

Associate Editors

Ken Andersen
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge
Tennessee 37831, USA
Keywords: Neutron Instrumentation and Optics
USA

Masatoshi Arai
European Spallation Source ERIC (ESS)
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
224 84 Lund
Sweden
Keywords: Spallation Source Technology and Instrumentation

Rob Bewley
ISIS, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Chilton, Didcot
Oxon OX11 0QX
UK
Keywords: Neutron Spectroscopy

Leighton Coates
ORNL
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6473
USA
Keywords: Neutron Crystallography

Rob Dalgliesh
ISIS, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Chilton, Didcot
Oxon OX11 0QX
UK
Keywords: Reflectometry

Sylvain Désert
Laboratoire Léon Brillouin
UMR12 CNRS-CEA, CEA Saclay,
91191 Gif-sur-Yvette,
France
Keywords: Instrument Development

Charles Dewhurst
Institut Laue-Langevin
BP 156, 6 rue Jules Horowitz
38042 Grenoble
France
Keywords: Small-Angle Scattering and Software, Neutron Optics

Georg Ehlers
ORNL
Oak Ridge, TN, 37831-6466
USA
Keywords: Spectroscopy, Spin-echo, Instrument Development

Robert Georgii
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ) und Physik Department E21
Science Group coordinator Quantum Phenomena
Instrument MIRA
Technische Universität München
Lichtenbergstr.1
85748 Garching
Germany
Keywords: Neutron Spectroscopy and Instrumentation

Klaus Habicht
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH
Hahn-Meitner-Platz 1
D-14109 Berlin
Germany
Keywords: Triple-axis spectroscopy, Neutron resonance spin echo spectroscopy, Larmor labelling techniques

Monika Hartl
European Spallation Source
Box 176
22100 Lund
Sweden
Keywords: Small-Angle Scattering

Richard Ibberson
ORNL
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6457
USA
Keywords: Powder Diffraction

Alexander Ioffe
Jülich Centre for Neutron Science at MLZ Forschungszentrum Jülich
Lichtenbergstr. 1
85748 Garching
Germany
Keywords: Neutron Instrumentation, Neutron Optics, Polarised Neutrons

Erwin Jericha
ATI, Technical University
Stadionallee 2
1020 Vienna
Austria
Keywords: Neutron Interferometry, Optics

Oliver Kirstein
European Spallation Source
Box 176, 22100 Lund
Sweden
Keywords: High-Resolution Spectroscopy

Sergey Kulikov
IBR2, JINR
Joliot-Curie str. 6
141980 Dubna
Moscow region, Russia
Keywords: Detectors, Electronics, Moderators

Kim Lefmann
The Niels Bohr Institute
University of Copenhagen
Universitetsparken 5, bygn. D
2100 Copenhagen Ø
Denmark
Keywords: Instrument Simulation

Fujio Maekawa
J-PARC, JAEA
2-4 Shirane Shirakata, Tokai-mura
Naka-gun, Ibaraki 319-1195
Japan
Keywords: Target and Moderator Technology

Subhankur Mitra
Dhruva, BARC
Trombay, Mumbai 400 085
India
Keywords: Quasieleastic Scattering

Richard Mole
Bragg Institute
ANSTO
Locked Bag 2001
Kirrawee DC
NSW 2232
AUSTRALIA
Keywords: Time-of-Flight, Triple Axis

Evgeny Moskvin
National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute" –
Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute
Orlova Roscha 1
Leningrad district
188300, Gatchina
Russia
Keywords: Instrumentation, Neutron Optics

Scott Olsen
Bragg Institute
ANSTO
Locked Bag 2001
Kirrawee DC
NSW 2232
Australia
Keywords: Neutron Instrumentation, Operations & Upgrades

Toshiya Otomo
J-PARC, KEK
203-1 Shirakata
Tokai-mura, Naka-gun
Ibaraki 319-1195
Japan
Keywords: Total Scattering Instruments

Catherine Pappas
TU Delft
Mekelweg 15
262j JB Delft
The Netherlands
Keywords: Neutron Spin Echo, Polarised Neutrons

Margarita Russina
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
Hahn-Meitner-Platz
14109 Berlin
Germany
Keywords: Time-of-Flight Techniques

Javier Santisteban
CNEA
Centro Atómico, Bariloche
Argentina
Keywords: Radiography

Hirohiko M. Shimizu
Laboratory for Particle Properties
Department of Physics
Nagoya University
Furocho, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8602
Japan
Keywords: Neutron Optics, Neutron & Particle Physics

Markus Strobl
Paul Scherrer Institut,
5232 Villigen PSI, WBBA 118
Switzerland
Keywords: Neutron Science, Neutron Instrumentation, Neutron Imaging, Engineering Diffraction

Xin Tong
China Spallation Neutron Source
Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS
Dongguan, Guangdong, 523803
China
Keywords: Polarised Neutrons, Sample Environment, Instrumentation

Honorary Editors

Colin Carlile
Uppsala University
Sweden

Gerry Lander
Grenoble
France

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