APS Open Science Scope
APS Open Science welcomes papers from the full spectrum of research topics across the physical sciences and adjacent fields. The journal offers unique features designed to serve the evolving needs of authors from all regions and career stages, embracing diverse research outputs including data and software advances, replication studies, and negative and null results. Coverage encompasses fundamental and applied research, theoretical and experimental studies, technical and methodological advancements, as well as interdisciplinary and emerging topics.
Representative topics include, but are not limited to:
- Acoustics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Biological Physics
- Chemical Physics
- Climate Science
- Complex Systems and Networks
- Computational and Data-Intensive Science
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Cosmology
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Electronics and Devices
- Energy Research
- Fluid Mechanics
- Geophysics
- Gravitation
- Industrial Physics
- Information Theory
- Interdisciplinary Research
- Magnetism
- Materials Science
- Mathematical Physics
- Medical Physics
- Mesoscopics
- Metamaterials
- Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
- Nonlinear Dynamics
- Nuclear Physics
- Optics
- Optoelectronics
- Particles and Fields
- Photonics
- Physical Chemistry
- Physics Education Research
- Physics of Living Systems
- Plasma Science and Technology
- Plasmonics
- Polymer Science
- Polymeric Materials
- Quantum Fluids
- Quantum Materials
- Quantum Information and Technology
- Quantum Physics
- Scientific Machine Learning
- Semiconductor Physics and Technology
- Soft and Active Matter
- Solid Mechanics
- Spintronics
- Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics
- String Theory
- Superconductivity
- Superfluidity
- Surface Science
- Topological Physics
- Zero-, One-, and Two-Dimensional Materials
