News for Physical Review D
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Releases Refreshed Data Availability Policy for the Physical Review Journals
August 1, 2024
The policy requires authors to explain where research data can be found starting Sept. 4.
ANNOUNCEMENT
2023 Journal Impact Factors
June 21, 2024
Clarivate Analytics has released the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, which provides journal impact factors and rankings for over 11,000 scholarly journals.
EDITORIAL
Editorial: Coauthor! Coauthor!
May 21, 2024
When determining the authorship list for your next paper, be generous yet disciplined.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Announces Outstanding Referees for 2024
March 1, 2024
APS has selected 156 Outstanding Referees for 2024 who have demonstrated exceptional work in the assessment of manuscripts published in the Physical Review journals. A full list of the Outstanding Referees is available online.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Partners with Research4Life
December 15, 2023
Offer includes Journal Access and waived article publication charges to Scientists in 100+ Lower and Middle Income Countries
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS and Astrobites Announce Partnership
October 25, 2023
The American Physical Society (APS) is pleased to announce that it will begin sponsoring Astrobites, a daily astrophysical literature journal written by graduate students in astronomy. This mutually beneficial collaboration aims to enhance the dissemination of research, educational resources, and career insights in the field of astronomy and astrophysics.
ANNOUNCEMENT
50 Years of QCD
October 11, 2023
A new Collection by the Physical Review journals celebrates the 50th anniversary of the discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics (QCD)—the theoretical basis for the strong force of nature that binds quarks and gluons into hadrons.
ANNOUNCEMENT
2023 Nobel Prize in Physics
October 3, 2023
APS congratulates the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics recipients Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”
EDITORIAL
Editorial: To Review Is to Be
September 25, 2023
APS Editor in Chief, Randall D. Kamien, discusses the importance and impact of journal reviewers.
ANNOUNCEMENT
First Published Content from PRX Life is Now Online
July 20, 2023
It is our pleasure to introduce the first published articles from PRX Life, the American Physical Society’s new interdisciplinary, open-access journal exclusively for quantitative biological research.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Signs Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)
May 16, 2023
The American Physical Society (APS), publisher of the Physical Review journals, is joining more than 20,000 individuals and organizations across 160 countries in a commitment to improve how researchers and their contributions to the scientific record are evaluated. APS is proud to mark the 10th anniversary of the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) by officially signing on to the international initiative.
ANNOUNCEMENT
PRX Life Is Now Open for Submissions!
March 20, 2023
View an interview with PRX Life Lead Editor Margaret Gardel and Managing Editor Serena Bradde from the 2023 APS March Meeting for more information on the journal.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Announces Outstanding Referees for 2023
March 6, 2023
APS has selected 153 Outstanding Referees for 2023 who have demonstrated exceptional work in the assessment of manuscripts published in the Physical Review journals. A full list of the Outstanding Referees is available online.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Randall Kamien Named APS Editor in Chief
December 7, 2022
The American Physical Society’s Board of Directors has appointed Randall Kamien as Editor in Chief effective January 1, 2023.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Introducing PRX Life
December 1, 2022
APS is pleased to announce the launch of the newest Physical Review title, PRX Life. PRX Life will offer scientists from a broad range of disciplines—including physics, biology, chemistry, engineering, and medicine—a high impact, fully open access journal dedicated to publishing outstanding research at all scales of biological organization.
ANNOUNCEMENT
2022 Nobel Prize in Physics
October 4, 2022
APS congratulates the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics recipients Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger for their groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states, where two particles behave like a single unit even when separated. Their results clear the way for new technology based on quantum information.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Open Access Report Shares Perspectives from Physics Researchers
August 22, 2022
The American Physical Society (APS), along with AIP Publishing, IOP Publishing (IOPP), and Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA), surveyed over 3,000 physical science researchers between December 2021 and January 2022 in an effort to understand their perspective on Open Access (OA) publishing. Their responses have been compiled into a report, which will help APS and other publishers better meet the publishing needs of the research community.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Nominations Are Open for APS Editor in Chief (EIC)
August 19, 2022
APS is now accepting nominations of members, including self-nominations, for the newly restructured role of APS Editor in Chief (EIC).
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Announces Outstanding Referees for 2022
March 1, 2022
APS has selected 146 Outstanding Referees for 2022 who have demonstrated exceptional work in the assessment of manuscripts published in the Physical Review journals. A full list of the Outstanding Referees is available online.
EDITORIAL
Physical Review D expands coverage of astrophysics and astronomy
January 24, 2022
With the goal of broadening its coverage of astrophysics, PRD hired astrophysicist Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz as an Associate Editor and appointed three experts in astrophysics to its Editorial Board.
ANNOUNCEMENT
PRX Energy Appoints Inaugural Lead Editor: David Scanlon
December 7, 2021
The American Physical Society (APS) is delighted to announce the appointment of David Scanlon, Professor of Computational Materials Design, University College London, United Kingdom, to the role of Lead Editor of PRX Energy, APS’s new, highly selective, open access journal covering energy science and technology. Professor Scanlon will serve as the inaugural Lead Editor of the journal, which will open for submissions December 7, 2021 and offer an introductory promotion in which all article publication charges (APCs) will be paid by APS through the end of 2022.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Full-time Associate Editor for Physical Review D
October 6, 2021
Physical Review D is looking for a full-time Associate Editor to complement our current editorial team. We are particularly interested in candidates with experience in astrophysics, astroparticle physics, or cosmology, but qualified candidates with experience in any subject area within the scope of PRD will be considered. For further information and to apply, see here.
ANNOUNCEMENT
2021 Nobel Prize in Physics
October 5, 2021
APS congratulates the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics recipients Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann “for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming” and the other half to Giorgio Parisi “for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales.”
Professor Parisi has authored several papers with Physical Review journals. A selection of relevant papers from Physical Review Letters and Reviews in Modern Physics have been made free-to-read.
Patrick Charbonneau, Eric I. Corwin, Giorgio Parisi, and Francesco Zamponi, Universal Microstructure and Mechanical Stability of Jammed Packings, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 205501 (2012).
M. Mézard, G. Parisi, N. Sourlas, G. Toulouse, and M. Virasoro, Nature of the Spin-Glass Phase, Phys. Rev. Lett. 52, 1156 (1984).
G. Parisi, Infinite Number of Order Parameters for Spin-Glasses, Phys. Rev. Lett. 43, 1754 (1979).
Paolo Rissone, Eric I. Corwin, and Giorgio Parisi, Long-Range Anomalous Decay of the Correlation in Jammed Packings, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 038001 (2021).
Giorgio Parisi and Francesco Zamponi, Mean-field theory of hard sphere glasses and jamming, Rev. Mod. Phys. 82, 789 (2010).
Giorgio Parisi, Order Parameter for Spin-Glasses, Phys. Rev. Lett. 50, 1946 (1983).
ANNOUNCEMENT
Physical Review Journals Announce Inclusive Name Change Policy
September 17, 2021
The American Physical Society (APS) today released the details of its name change policy for the Physical Review journals. The policy is intended to make the world’s leading physics journals more inclusive and ensure authors retain ownership of prior work published under a different name.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Physical Review D seeks part-time Associate Editor to Develop Ties to Astronomy and Astrophysics
April 29, 2021
Physical Review D, a leading journal in high-energy physics, gravitation, and cosmology, seeks a part-time (remote) Associate Editor with high scientific standing in one or more subfields of astrophysics and astronomy, in particular: multi-messenger astrophysics, high-energy neutrino astrophysics, and/or galactic and extragalactic astronomy. The Associate Editor would be expected to develop ties between PRD and researchers in these subfields, and to raise the journal’s overall visibility.
EDITORIAL
Editorial: Eight Journals Introduce Letters
March 9, 2021
At the beginning of 2021, eight Physical Review journals began publishing Letters which are intended for the accelerated publication of important new results targeted to the specific readership of each journal.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Announces Outstanding Referees for 2021
February 24, 2021
APS has selected 151 Outstanding Referees for 2021 who have demonstrated exceptional work in the assessment of manuscripts published in the Physical Review journals. A full list of the Outstanding Referees is available online.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Rapid Communications papers will now be Letters
November 23, 2020
Starting January 1, 2021, the Rapid Communications article type will be renamed to Letters. With this change, all eight Physical Review journals that had previously classified articles of the type “Rapid Communications” will adopt the practice of Physical Review Applied and now publish such articles as Letters. Learn more
EDITORIAL
Promoting Inclusive and Respectful Communications
November 18, 2020
APS Editor in Chief, Michael Thoennessen, discusses a new opportunity for communicating authors to include their pronouns together with their contact email in order to promote a more respectful, inclusive, and equitable environment.
ANNOUNCEMENT
2020 Nobel Prize in Physics
October 6, 2020
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced the recipients of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, which has been awarded for discoveries about black holes, one of the most exotic phenomena in the universe. This year’s prize is awarded to Roger Penrose (University of Oxford), Reinhard Genzel (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, and University of California, Berkeley), and Andrea Ghez (University of California, Los Angeles).
EDITORIAL
Editorial: The Future of Physical Review D
July 13, 2020
Recently appointed Lead Editor, Mirjam Cvetič, introduces herself and discusses the future of Physical Review D.
ANNOUNCEMENT
American Physical Society, Max Planck Gesellschaft Pilot Transformative Agreement
July 7, 2020
APS and the Max Planck Gesellschaft (MPG) have finalized the terms of a strategic partnership that allows MPG authors to easily publish open access in all hybrid and gold Physical Review journals at no direct cost to authors. At the center of the collaboration is APS’s first “read and publish” pilot, covering the calendar year 2020, and building upon the long-standing relationship between APS and the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL).
EDITORIAL
Editorial: 50 Years of Physical Review A, B, C, and D
June 11, 2020
Editor in Chief, Michael Thoennessen, celebrates the 50th anniversary of Physical Review A, B, C, and D.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Mirjam Cvetič Selected as Lead Editor of Physical Review D
March 3, 2020
APS has appointed Mirjam Cvetič, Fay R. and Eugene L. Langberg Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania, as the Lead Editor of Physical Review D (PRD). She takes over this role from Erick Weinberg of Columbia University, who has served as PRD’s Lead Editor since September 1996. Cvetič started in her new role on March 1, 2020.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Announces Outstanding Referees for 2020
March 2, 2020
APS has selected 147 Outstanding Referees for 2020 that have demonstrated exceptional work in the assessment of manuscripts submitted to the Physical Review journals. A full list of the Outstanding Referees is available online.
ANNOUNCEMENT
2019 Nobel Prize in Physics
October 8, 2019
APS congratulates the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics recipients James Peebles “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology”, and Michael Mayor and Didier Queloz “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.” Read more in this update from APS News.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Discovery of Supergravity recognized with $3 Million Breakthrough Prize
August 13, 2019
S. Ferrara (CERN), D. Freedman (MIT), and P. van Nieuwenhuizen (Stony Brook) will receive the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their discovery of supergravity, which was published in 1976 in Phys. Rev. D. Supergravity is an extension of Einstein’s gravity which respects the three years earlier formulated concept of supersymmetry and was hugely influential in the development of particle physics and string theory over the last forty years.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Announces Outstanding Referees for 2019
February 26, 2019
APS has selected 143 Outstanding Referees for 2019 that have demonstrated exceptional work in the assessment of manuscripts submitted to the Physical Review journals. A full list of the Outstanding Referees is available online.
ANNOUNCEMENT
REVTeX 4.2 Released
January 11, 2019
The first update to REVTeX since 2010 is now available. REVTeX 4.2 includes bug fixes, improved functionality, and support for more societies and journals. For more information, please visit the REVTeX home page.
ANNOUNCEMENT
2018 Nobel Prize in Physics
October 2, 2018
APS congratulates the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics recipients Arthur Ashkin “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems,” and Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses.” Read more in this update from APS News.
ANNOUNCEMENT
PhySH Now Publicly Available
September 11, 2018
PhySH, APS’s physics classification scheme, is now publicly available under a Creative Commons CC0 license. Created to provide a fully open, high-quality classification scheme for the entire physics community, PhySH groups concepts into a flexible hierarchy that organizes content by topics.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Complete the Physical Review D Survey
August 8, 2018
The APS has formed a committee charged with reviewing the performance of the journal Physical Review D (PRD). To inform the work of the committee we would very much appreciate receiving your help and advice. More information
ANNOUNCEMENT
Physics Physique физика Freely Available Online
March 22, 2018
As a service to the community, APS has made “Physics Physique физика” freely available online. This small journal published fewer than 100 articles between 1964-1968 and includes papers by many notable physicists, including J. S. Bell’s paper “On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen paradox.”
ANNOUNCEMENT
Remembering Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
March 16, 2018
Martin Rocek, YITP Stony Brook University
I was Stephen’s post-doctoral fellow for two and a half years. In 1979, Stephen hired me to teach him about supergravity, that had been discovered two years earlier at Stony Brook. Though I failed to teach Stephen supergravity, it was a very productive time for Stephen. During this time, among many other projects, he explored the consequences of his then recently proposed Information Paradox [1].
[1] This article and all others by Stephen Hawking published in the Physical Review journals have been made free to read online. Among them one can find the Wave function of the Universe, which describes quantum aspects of the Big Bang.
ANNOUNCEMENT
The Work of Stephen Hawking in Physical Review
March 14, 2018
To mark the passing of Stephen Hawking, we gathered together and made free to read his 55 papers in Physical Review D and Physical Review Letters. They probe the edges of space and time, from “Black holes and thermodynamics” to “Wave function of the Universe.” APS News Article
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Announces Outstanding Referees for 2018
February 26, 2018
APS has selected 147 Outstanding Referees for 2018 that have demonstrated exceptional work in the assessment of manuscripts submitted to the Physical Review journals. A full list of the Outstanding Referees is available online.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Corrections in Physical Review publications
January 4, 2018
The Physical Review journals and Reviews of Modern Physics now make Corrections of minor errors in published papers.
EDITORIAL
A Tale of Two Anniversaries: 125 Years of the Physical Review and 25 Years of Physical Review E
January 4, 2018
Publisher Matthew Salter and Editor in Chief, Michael Thoennessen, kick off the 125th anniversary of The Physical Review and 25th anniversary of Physical Review E.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Information on SCOAP3 and Physical Review journals
January 3, 2018
High Energy Physics (HEP) papers published after January 1, 2018 in Physical Review Letters, Physical Review C, and Physical Review D are published open access, paid for centrally by SCOAP3. Library subscriptions will be modified accordingly. This arrangement will initially last for two years, up to the end of 2019.
ANNOUNCEMENT
2017 Nobel Prize in Physics
October 3, 2017
APS congratulates Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish, and Kip S. Thorne for winning the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.”
APS News Article
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Cultivates ORCID Links
July 18, 2017
On July 18, 2017, APS, along with the Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP), has taken an important step towards working more closely with the Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) system of unique identifiers by signing the ORCID open letter requiring the collection of ORCID iDs in their publishing processes.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Joins the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC)
July 11, 2017
Starting on July 11, APS will begin participating in the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), a collaboration among scholarly publishers to make information freely available about what papers are cited by a given journal article. This information had always been available to those subscribing to the Physical Review journals, but now the citation data will be open to all.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Michael Thoennessen Appointed New APS Editor in Chief
June 22, 2017
Nuclear physicist Michael Thoennessen has been selected to become APS Editor in Chief at the end of August 2017. Currently an Associate Director of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University (MSU) in Lansing, Michigan, and University Distinguished Professor of Physics at MSU, he was appointed following a vote of the APS Board of Directors on June 16.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS and CERN Sign Open Access Agreement for SCOAP3
April 27, 2017
APS and CERN, the host organization of SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics), have signed an agreement to make the high-energy physics (HEP) articles published in three leading APS journals open access beginning January 1, 2018. This agreement acts to support the publishing of open access content for wider benefit of the HEP community. Read More
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Endorses March for Science
March 10, 2017
After a thoughtful, deliberative process involving an examination of the alignment of the values of APS with the goals of the March for Science on April 22 in Washington, D.C., the APS Council Steering Committee, on behalf of the Council of Representatives, unanimously voted to endorse the march.
EDITORIAL
From the APS Editor in Chief
February 3, 2017
The journals of the American Physical Society welcome and will continue to welcome manuscripts from all countries, with publication based on scientific merit alone.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Announces Outstanding Referees for 2017
January 17, 2017
APS has selected 150 Outstanding Referees for 2017 that have demonstrated exceptional work in the assessment of manuscripts published in the Physical Review journals. A full list of the Outstanding Referees is available online.
ANNOUNCEMENT
2017 Breakthrough Prizes Awarded
December 13, 2016
The Breakthrough Prize organization announced its 2017 winners and celebrated its 5th anniversary.
ANNOUNCEMENT
2016 Nobel Prize in Physics
October 4, 2016
APS congratulates David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane, and J. Michael Kosterlitz for winning the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for their theoretical discoveries using topological concepts.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Selects Editor in Chief
June 23, 2016
Pierre Meystre of the University of Arizona has been appointed Editor in Chief of the Physical Review research journals.
ANNOUNCEMENT
In Memory of Peter D. Adams
April 20, 2016
We are saddened by the passing on April 16 of our dear colleague Peter Adams, one of the founders of the Physical Review family of journals. We offer our heartfelt condolences to his family.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Announces Outstanding Referees for 2016
March 2, 2016
APS has selected 146 Outstanding Referees for 2016 that have been exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication in the Physical Review journals. A full list of the Outstanding Referees for 2016 is available online.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Appoints New Publisher
December 1, 2015
Asia-Pacific region publishing manager for UK Institute of Physics to join top management staff of the American Physical Society.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Neutrino Oscillations Nab Nobel Prize
October 6, 2015
APS congratulates Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald for winning the 2015 Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass. Their prize-winning research is free to read in Physical Review Letters.
GUEST EDITORIAL
General Relativity Still Making Waves
September 24, 2015
Clifford Will discusses the importance of Einstein’s general theory of relativity and its relevance for physics research today.
APS NEWS
Editor in Chief of APS Journals Steps Down
May 1, 2015
Gene Sprouse, Editor in Chief of the APS research journals since March 2007, has stepped down from the position as of April 28, 2015. Read more in APS News.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Discontinuation of Brief Reports in Physical Review D
January 9, 2015
The Brief Reports section, which in recent years has contained less than five percent of all the papers published in PRD, was originally intended for the publication of short articles with limited scope that satisfied the usual publication criteria, but did not reach the same level of completeness as a regular article. There was often confusion among authors and referees about these criteria, with some mistakenly interpreting them to mean that the scientific standards for Brief Reports were lower than for other articles in Physical Review D.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Article titles in the reference list
December 29, 2014
Starting January 1, 2015, all Physical Review journals will allow article titles in the reference list.
EDITORIAL
PRX Takes on a New Role
October 9, 2014
APS Editor in Chief Gene Sprouse discusses the new role of Physical Review X as APS's highly selective and broadly accessible journal, that publishes a small number of key papers from all areas of physics in APS's nonprofit, science-first publishing tradition.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Congratulates the 2014 Nobel Prize Winners
October 8, 2014
The American Physical Society congratulates the 2014 Nobel Prize Winners in Physics and Chemistry.
Physics
The physics laureates Isamu Akasaki (Meijo University and Nagoya University), Hiroshi Amano (Nagoya University), and Shuji Nakamura (University of California, Santa Barbara) have been recognized for their work that led to the invention of the blue light-emitting diode, a fundamental stepping stone towards the realization of new environmentally friendly and energy efficient light sources.
Chemistry
The chemistry laureates Eric Bertzig (Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Stefan W. Hell (Max Planck Institute and German Cancer Research Center), and William E. Moerner (Stanford Univerisity) have been recognized for their work in improving the resolution of optical microscopy, in particular the development of a super-resolved fluorescence microscope.
“It’s a great year for optics,” said Pierre Meystre (University of Arizona Regents’ Professor of Physics and Optical Sciences, Physical Review Letters Lead Editor), “with blue LEDs winning the Physics Nobel yesterday and fluorescence microscopy winning the Chemistry prize today. It shows that wonderful things are happening in optics from saving enormous amounts of energy with efficient lighting to helping with life-saving medical advances that rely on super-resolution imaging. They are completely different technologies, but both light-based, and next year is the International Year of Light, so the timing couldn’t be better.”
Many remarkable papers from these scientists contributed to this development. These include Moerner’s seminal 1989 work on optical detection and spectroscopy of single molecules in a solid, which was published in Physical Review Letters. This paper is now freely available on our website.
Read More from APS:
- Physics APS News Update
- Chemistry APS News Update
- APS Press Release for Chemistry Prize
- W. E. Moerner and L. Kador, Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 2535 (1989)
Nobel Press Releases:
ANNOUNCEMENT
CERN and APS announce partnership for Open Access
September 18, 2014
The American Physical Society (APS) and The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) jointly announce a partnership to make all CERN-authored articles published in the APS journal collection to be Open Access. Articles in APS' Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D, and Physical Review C in 2015 and 2016 will be covered by this agreement. All physics results from CERN will benefit from this partnership, in theoretical physics and experimental physics, at the LHC accelerator as well as other experimental programs.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Launches Full-Text HTML
September 10, 2014
The American Physical Society has launched full-text HTML versions of more than 200,000 articles throughout the APS journal collection from as early as 2003. Users can now access APS content using high-quality navigation features and mobile-friendly math displays across a range of devices.
ANNOUNCEMENT
PRD Editors’ Suggestions
July 1, 2014
As a service to our readers, we are formally marking a small number of papers published in Physical Review D that the editors and referees find of particular interest, importance, or clarity.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Editor Retired from Physical Review D
July 1, 2014
For the first time in almost forty years, the masthead of Physical Review D does not include Dennis Nordstrom’s name as Editor on the top line. Dennis has retired.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Announces 143 New Outstanding Referees for 2014
February 26, 2014
The editors of the APS journals have selected 143 new Outstanding Referees for 2014, out of more than 50,000 currently active referees.
ANNOUNCEMENT
ORCID One-Year Anniversary
October 16, 2013
ORCID is celebrating its one-year anniversary today, and APS is proud to have been a Launch Partner and to continue as a Platinum Sponsor of the ORCID Registry. We encourage all authors who have not yet registered for an ORCID identifier to visit the APS Author Profile application to sign up and help meet the goal of 500,000 researchers signed up by the end of 2013.
ANNOUNCEMENT
2013 Nobel Prize in Physics: Discovery of the Higgs Boson and the Symmetry Breaking Theory that Predicted It
October 8, 2013
The 2013 Physics Nobel Prize has been awarded to two physicists who were instrumental in developing the theory that helps explain the origin of mass of elementary particles and predicts the existence of the Higgs Boson discovered last year. The prize, which recognizes the contributions of François Englert (Universite Libre de Bruxelles) and Peter Higgs (University of Edinburgh) for the theory of broken symmetry in electroweak physics, echoes the announcement of the 2010 American Physical Society’s J. J. Sakurai prize, which was awarded to the two Nobel Laureates as well as four additional physicists who made comparable contributions to the symmetry breaking work. The work originally appeared in Physical Review Letters.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Introducing Mobile Subscriptions for APS Journals
March 12, 2013
Readers can now conveniently access APS journals from home, on mobile devices, or while traveling by linking their institution’s subscriptions to their personal APS Journal Account. To link the subscriptions, simply click on the new Go Mobile! button that appears on article pages when accessing the journals from your institution.
EDITORIAL
Editorial: Redefining Length
July 11, 2011
A picture is worth 170 words, not one thousand, according to APS's new length scheme that aims to ease the frustrations typically associated with estimating the length of Letters and other short papers.
EDITORIAL
Editorial: Expanded Open Access and Creative Commons
February 15, 2011
As of 15 February 2011, authors in most Physical Review journals will have a new alternative: to pay an article-processing charge whereby their accepted manuscripts will be available barrier-free and open access on publication.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS and CERN make LHC articles Open Access
July 6, 2010
APS and CERN are pleased to announce that the initial experimental results from the LHC published in Physical Review Letters and Physical Review will be made available Open Access and under a Creative Commons license, for all interested parties to read and reuse. With this gesture, APS and CERN acknowledge the fundamental significance of the work being performed by these large international collaborations.
EDITORIAL
Editorial: APS now leaves copyright with authors for derivative works
October 1, 2008
When you submit an article to an APS journal, we ask you to sign our copyright form. It transfers copyright for the article to APS, but keeps certain rights for you, the author. We have recently changed the form to add the right to make ‘‘derivative works’’ that reuse parts of the article in a new work. The importance of this change is discussed below.
EDITORIAL
Editorial: Physics - spotlighting exceptional research
September 15, 2008
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS participates in the "Summit of Information Specialists in Particle Physics"
May 28, 2008
APS joined high-energy physics labs and others at the "Summit of Information Specialists in Particle Physics and Astrophysics" held at DESY on May 20-21, 2008 to develop a new scientific information system. See this press release.
EDITORIAL
Announcement: New Prices and Payment Policy for Color Figures in the Print Journal
June 23, 2007
Effective with manuscripts accepted for publication on or after July 1, 2007, APS will charge for publishing color figures in the print journal according to a simplified, flat-fee pricing scheme. The price for publishing a single color illustration will be US$800.00. Each subsequent color figure in that article will cost US$425.00.
This new fee structure will allow APS to streamline our operations by requiring advance payment for color charges. When an article is accepted for publication, the authors will receive confirmation of the amount due for color reproduction in the print journal. A formal invoice will follow this message within a few days of acceptance, together with payment instructions. The manuscript will not be forwarded to our composition vendor for publication until the invoice is paid, or a decision is made to publish the article without color in print. To avoid excessive delays in publication, if a response is not received within two weeks, the article will be sent to production with the figures designated as color online only. Publication charges and reprint charges will be invoiced separately, after publication of the article.
Of course, APS continues to make available the option of publishing color figures in the online journal only without cost to the authors (provided the figures are submitted according to APS guidelines). Please refer to http://authors.aps.org/tips.html for more information about color online only.