Physical & Engineering Sciences in Medicine (PESM) was established in 1977 and is published quarterly by Springer. It is the official journal of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM) and is distributed to members as well as to libraries, individual subscribers, company subscribers and other institutions throughout the world.
The official publication of the ACPSEM started out as a newsletter, the Australasian Newsletter of Medical Physics, first published in December 1959. As research and professions in medical physics evolved, so too did the newsletters, which were eventually replaced in 1977 by a more comprehensive quarterly journal with a focus on peer-reviewed research.
In 2010, the journal joined the Springer stable, a move that has increased the international visibility of the journal and the number of manuscripts submitted. Manuscripts are now received from all over the world, but particularly from Asian countries. In 2009, the year before the Journal joined Springer, 47 manuscripts – almost exclusively from Australia and New Zealand – were submitted to the Journal for consideration. By 2018, that number had grown to more than 450. Now manuscripts from Australasian researchers are in the minority. To reflect and further encourage this internationality, and to remove any sense of regionality, the journal underwent yet another name change at the beginning of 2020, removing “Australasian” from its title to make it the Journal of Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine (PESM).
Today PESM is the official journal of ACPSEM, the College of Biomedical Engineers, Engineers Australia and the Asia-Oceania Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics.
Members of ACPSEM receive an automatic subscription to the journal. Online access to the digital publication is available throught the "My ACPSEM" area of our website. Members may also opt to receive print copies of each journal issue, however we do urge them to consider the environment and use the online version instead.
Not an ACPSEM Member? Subscription rates for non-members are determined by Springer and can be found at www.springer.com/13246.
To access the Journal online, login to the ACPSEM website. You will be automaticlly redirected to the "My ACPSEM" area of the website where you will find a direct link to the latest issue.
If you wish to receive hard copies of the journal, navigate to "My Communications" under the "My ACPSEM" area. Under this section you can manage your subscriptions to all communications from the College and opt-in or out of receiving hard copy issues of the journal.
Click here for instructions for submission to the PESM Journal.
Authors can submit manuscripts online at www.editorialmanager.com/apes using the format outlined here. Please ensure you read these instructions prior to lodging your submission.
Editorial enquiries should be directed to the Editor-in Chief, Prof Clive Baldock, at journal.editor@acpsem.org.au