In addition to full-length research articles, it publishes review articles and rapid communications ("Letters to the Editor").

A special section, "Information Storage: Basic and Applied", covers topics on magnetic media.

The editor-in-chief is S. D. Bader (Argonne National Laboratory).

[1] The journal is abstracted and indexed in over forty databases, including Current Contents/Physics, Chemical, & Earth Sciences, Compendex, Inspec, CSA/ASCE Civil Engineering Abstracts, and Scopus.

[4] In June 2017, the three most highly cited articles were:[5]