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发帖数: 50 | 1 之前在版上问关于PRX这个相对较新的期刊， 大家看法不一，今天看到小木虫上有人发
关于此期刊的官方刊文，貌似要火。。。
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，PRX的尖刀
王牌队的定位现在在APS及整个物理届已经很明朗了,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与PRL互补，齐头并进). 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(PRL的牛逼地位不动摇). 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(两座山头井然而立，作者理性选择). 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.Crhave their best scientific contributions
published in highly selective and small journals that can disseminate those
contributions broadly and offer them high visibility |
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