Metrologia is an international journal dealing with the scientific aspects of metrology. It has been running since 1965 and has been published by the BIPM since 1991.
Metrologia invites for publication articles that report the results of original research directed towards the significant improvement of fundamental measurements. Those submissions that concern an improvement to the standards of the seven base units of the International System of Units (metre, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, candela, mole) or proposals to replace them with better ones will be particularly welcome. In addition, original articles are invited that contribute to the accuracy of derived units, or of constants that have a fundamental importance in physics - such as the speed of light, the gyromagnetic ratio of the proton, the acceleration due to gravity, etc. - or that contribute to the solution of particularly difficult measurement problems.
Although in general Metrologia will prefer to publish articles that have a fundamental importance in the development of measurement, others that report new methods or improvements to existing methods that contribute in a significant way to the making of secondary measurement will be considered. The journal will also publish review articles, issues devoted to single topics of timely interest, and occasional conference proceedings. Letters to the Editor and Short Communications (generally three pages or less) are warmly invited and it is hoped that these will serve to draw attention to the development of new trends of thought and experiment in this area of physical research. Reports will be given regularly on the activities, decisions and recommendations of the International Committee for Weights and Measures and its advisory committees, and of the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures at Sèvres. In support of the Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA), the web-based Technical Supplement to Metrologia will publish, at authors' requests, final reports of key and supplementary comparisons. The main journal welcomes the submissions of comparison reports (not necessarily MRA-related) which reviewers judge to contain new science, innovative developments or novel techniques.
