The Journal of the Physics Society of Japan (JPSJ) is the English language journal published by the Physical Society of Japan. Started in 1946, it has come to be regarded highly as a world class academic journal in the field of physics. The JPSJ is edited by the JPS's JPSJ editorial board, and published through the IPAP , a body jointly managed by the JPS and the Japan Society of Applied Physics(JSAP).

In recent years, JPSJ publishes some 600 articles in a year, their pages totaling as many as 36,000. Most of these are utilized in their digital format. Monthly downloading of JPSJ articles have come to exceed 10,000.

The impact factor (IF) is a measurement, provided by the press agency Thomson Reuters, of the quality of academic journals. The IF made public June 2008 for JPSJ was 2.212, a further improvement from the previous year.

The JPSJ editorial board selects every month from among the published articles works of particular note as Papers of Editors' Choice. They can be seen in the below website.

http://jpsj.ipap.jp/ec/ec_78.html

This is an important source for those who wish to know the latest developments in the field of physics.