About WIREs

The WIREs publications focus on high-profile research areas at the interfaces of the traditional disciplines.
Content for each WIREs title is selected, invited, and reviewed by an internationally renowned Editorial Board, ensuring that the highest scientific and presentational standards are maintained.
Coverage is carefully crafted to provide an encyclopedic coverage of the field.
New and updated reviews are added every month, ensuring that the most current information in the field is always available.
Reviews are highly structured and consistently formatted, maximizing the accessibility and utility of the content to the user.

Editorial Commentaries provide an opportunity for WIREs Editors to offer their own syntheses of broad areas of research in a less formal and more flexible style.
Opinions provide a forum for thought-leaders to offer a more individual perspective.
Primers are meant to be understood by a very general audience, such as undergraduates just entering a given field.
Overviews provide a broad and non-technical treatment of important topics suitable for advanced students and for researchers without a strong background in the field.
Advanced Reviews examine key areas of research in a citation-rich format suitable for researchers and advanced students.
Focus Articles present specific real-world issues, examples, and implementations.
Software Focus articles describe specific software packages of high utility in a certain field, with an emphasis on their capabilities and implementations rather than methodology.