[交流] APS主编：PRX 尖刀王牌，和PRL互补齐头并进

http://journals.aps.org/prl/edan ... sRevLett.113.150001 PRX创刊于2011年，是APS除PRL之外的另一个“综合类”期刊。三年过去了，其影响因子第二年超过8并且高于PRL，现如今APS团队对PRX的尖刀王牌队的定位正式发文,特色就是高选择小发文量，让文章可见度更高，highly selective and small journals that can disseminate those contributions broadly and offer them high visibility，说白了就是和Nature physics路线是一模一样的。 这也是整个APS团队对PRX的定位。保持远远更高选择性much more selective than it is already now，每年250篇 key individual articles from established fields，小发文量, 不影响PRL的地位，和PRL互补齐头并进，为作者提供最高质量期刊平台。 PRX Takes on a New Role The American Physical Society (APS) launched Physical Review X (PRX) three years ago, as a new member of the APS journal family. What is its role in the family? To answer this question, it may be instructive to look briefly at how the APS journal family, with its current make-up, serves the needs and interests of the physics community. The APS journal family offers authors a variety of venues for their articles. Researchers can choose between Physical Review Letters (PRL), our large, selective, broad-scope, letter-format journal that is the most cited in physics, and the other Physical Review journals that publish new and significant results in different fields of physics. True to the APS mission to advance physics and serve the global physics community, our journals belong, not to a for-profit corporation, but to physicists all over the world who work hard for the journals as authors, reviewers, and editorial board members. The decision of which articles to publish is based on their scientific merit, rather than on what is “newsworthy” or “hot,” and on their sound scholarly presentation rather than “hype.” (这点貌似是针对喜爱炒作的nature团队的,表明APS就是老老实实做science的，不是靠买噱头的，当然大家有目共睹，那么多诺贝尔奖，APS完全有资格说这样的话). In recent years, however, we have seen a strong need of some researchers to have their best scientific contributions published in highly selective and small journals that can disseminate those contributions broadly and offer them high visibility(nature physics的路子). We have also clearly heard a desire expressed by many in the global physics community that such a journal be published in the nonprofit and science-first APS publishing tradition. Now, with PRX, APS can offer such a venue to the community. Recently, an external committee, consisting of a diverse group of physicists, including junior and senior scientists from many different fields and from different regions of the world, reviewed PRX. The committee lauded PRX for its careful review process and adherence to high scientific standards, and for the reputation it has already gained as a journal of high visibility and broad dissemination. They recommended that PRX continue on its upward trajectory and take on the new role by staying small, about 250 papers/year, and becoming much more selective than it already is now. We have enthusiastically accepted that firm recommendation. We also demand that PRX remain true to the mission and the best publishing practices of all of the APS journals.(APS团队对PRX的定位) The committee also recommended that PRX and PRL work together to improve the profile of both journals. PRX and PRL will now complement each other, as different choices for authors. PRX does not aim to track the full arc of important developments within each field as does PRL, but will select only key individual articles from established fields as well as emerging and interdisciplinary areas of physics. PRX’s flexibility toward article length allows authors to present their research with both sufficient clarity and context to reach a general audience, and enough detail to serve as a resource for specialists. As an open-access, online journal, PRX provides broad dissemination of highly significant research results to all readers without a subscription barrier. This feature should be particularly beneficial to those communities of science, medicine, and industrial research as well as scientific communities in developing countries that may not have access to our other journals through subscription. We are excited to have PRX take on its new role in our family of journals. At the same time APS will strongly support PRL so that it will continue to be the journal with the greatest impact in physics. We now have two journals for papers of the highest quality and trust authors to judiciously choose which they think is the most appropriate venue for their top work. Whether it is PRL (http://journals.aps.org/prl/) that tracks the full arc of physics or PRX (http://journals.aps.org/prx/) that selects a small number of articles across all areas where physicists are engaged in research, your choice will give support to the nonprofit and science-first principles of the APS journals, and ultimately benefit the global physics community and its research. Gene D. Sprouse Editor in Chief American Physical Society Published 9 October 2014 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.150001 PACS number(s): 01.30.Ww, 01.10.Cr [ Last edited by 自私的猫1988 on 2014-10-11 at 07:37 ]

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