The American Physical Society (APS) has announced the inaugural issue of Physical Review Research. The journal has published its first content less than two months since opening for submissions in June.
Demonstrating the journal’s broad, multidisciplinary scope covering all of physics and related fields of interest to the physics community, the first release of peer-reviewed research articles includes advances in the areas of materials science, quantum information, soft matter, plasma science, optics, and condensed matter physics. Other papers accepted into the first issue of the journal were authored by researchers working in chemical physics, topological physics, complex systems, astrophysics, particles and fields, atomic and molecular physics, and other subject areas.
In addition to peer-reviewed research content, the first issue also contains two opening editorials. In the first APS Editor in Chief Michael Thoennessen describes the rationale behind the structure of the editorial leadership for the new journal. The second editorial is co-authored by D’Souza, Pan, Spaldin, and Liétor-Santos, and lays out the editors’ shared vision for Physical Review Research.
The editors also define the relationship between the new journal and the other titles in the Physical Review family, noting that the editorial standards and acceptance criteria of Physical Review Research are similar to those of Physical Review A-E, Physical Review Applied, Physical Review Fluids, and Physical Review Materials.
Physical Review Research is the fourth fully open access, online-only journal published by APS. All content is immediately free to read upon publication and allows reuse by readers world-wide under a CC-BY 4.0 International license. To allow all authors an opportunity to experience this new offering, APS is waiving article publication charges (APCs) for all manuscripts submitted in 2019 and subsequently published in Physical Review Research.
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