Alternatives to Journal of Computational Physics

Question

The Journal of Computational Physics has been an important outlet for computational science in the past, and I have published there before. For the benefit of those (like me) who have signed the Elsevier boycott, what non-Elsevier journals would be appropriate places to publish articles that could have been submitted to the Journal of Computational Physics?

A good alternative should:

• Overlap (at least partially) in subject matter with JCP
• Have a good reputation
• Not be published by Elsevier

Note: When I say "reputation", I don't mean impact factor. Please see this article that demonstrates that the two are not well-correlated in this field.

Answer 1

The SIAM Journals, especially SISC (Scientific Computing) and MMS (Multiscale Modeling and Simulation) are obvious established and high-quality choices.

Answer 2

Physical Review E
http://pre.aps.org/about
Physical Review E (PRE), interdisciplinary in scope, focuses on many-body phenomena, including recent developments in quantum and classical chaos and soft matter physics. It has sections on statistical physics, equilibrium and transport properties of fluids, liquid crystals, complex fluids, polymers, chaos, fluid dynamics, plasma physics, classical physics, and computational physics. In addition, the journal features sections on two rapidly growing areas: biological physics and granular materials.

Answer 3

I think there are several alternatives, but to some extent, it may depend upon the field. For fluid mechanics, there's obviously J. Fluid Mech.. For many areas in microscopic physics, you could send your work to J. Chem. Phys.

Answer 4

Although not as good as SIAM journals, Communications in Computational Physics (CiCP) also seems promising.

Answer 5

Along the same lines as aeismail's answer, International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering, and International Journal of Numerical Methods in Fluids could be candidate journals for papers that would otherwise go into Journal of Computational Physics. (These journals are both Wiley journals.)