Fluctuation and Noise Letters (FNL) is a journal published by World Scientific

World Scientific

World Scientific Publishing is a publisher of scientific, technical, and medical books and journals. The company was founded in 1981 and now employs more than 200 staff at its headquarters in Singapore, with offices worldwide in New Jersey, California, London, New Delhi, Tianjin, Sydney, Hong...

 since 2001. It is at present the only journal solely dedicated to interdisciplinary articles on fluctuations and noise in physical, biological and technological systems, and encourages open public debate.

Some topics covered to date include: noise enhanced phenomena including stochastic resonance; cardiovascular dynamics; quantum fluctuations; statistical physics; degradation and aging phenomena; traffic; the stockmarket; and climate.

The founder and first Editor-in-Chief of FNL was Laszlo B. Kish

Laszlo B. Kish

László Bela Kish is a physicist and professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. His activities include a wide range of issues surrounding the physics and technical applications of stochastic fluctuations in physical, biological and technological systems, including...

 (Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...

, USA) who was in charge in the period of 2001-2008. Since 2009, the Editor-in-Chief is Peter V. E. McClintock

Peter V. E. McClintock

Peter Vaughan Elsmere McClintock was born in Omagh, Northern Ireland, in 17 October 1940. McClintock is notable for his scientific work on superfluids and stochastic nonlinear dynamics.-Education:...

 (Lancaster University

Lancaster University

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, UK).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is indexed in:

• Mathematical Reviews
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• INSPEC
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• Science Citation Index Expanded
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• Current Contents
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  /Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences
• CompuMath Citation Index
• ISI Alerting Services