Physical Review Applied
Physical Review Applied is a trusted and multidisciplinary journal for high-quality, significant developments in applied science. It publishes work at the interfaces of physics with engineering, materials science, chemistry, biology, and medicine.
Spanning Applied Research
PRApplied aims to be a welcoming hub for work from diverse communities in physics and beyond, including engineering, materials science, chemistry, biology, medicine, and other disciplines. The editors encourage applied researchers to consider this journal their home for stimulating, scholarly publication and discussion.
PRApplied publishes traditional Research Articles; short Letters of particular significance or topical interest; Review Articles that survey the literature; and Perspectives, which offer opinion and direction at the cutting edge of research. The Letters section is intended for accelerated publication of important new results, at approximately the level of Physical Review Letters. Letters are given priority in editorial processing and production, to reduce processing time.
By Scientists, For Scientists
Like all of the journals in the Physical Review family, PRApplied is shaped by researchers to serve the research community. This ensures that its mission, standards, and policies prioritize the needs of researchers and the broader scientific community; this commitment is reinforced by APS’s promise as a founding member of the Purpose-Led Publishing coalition.
PRApplied focuses on topics including:
- Biophysics, bioelectronics, and biomedical engineering
- Device physics
- Electronics
- Technology to harvest, store, and transmit energy, focusing on renewable energy
- Magnetism and spintronics
- Metamaterials
- Microfluidics
- Nanoscience and nanotechnology
- Optics, optoelectronics, photonics, and photonic devices
- Quantum information science and technology
Submitted manuscripts should meet the following criteria:
- Present fresh insight into applications-based physical phenomena.
- Make a high-quality, significant contribution in a specific research area and generate interest for PRApplied's readers.
- Represent an authoritative and substantive addition to the body of literature.
At the core of APS's mission is a commitment to meeting the needs of physicists, a community that has been at the leading edge of open access. As a result, APS supports a variety of sustainable access options:
- Authors can pay an article publication charge (APC) to make accepted manuscripts immediately accessible under a CC-BY (4.0 International) license. In keeping with APS's community orientation, this is the most permissive license available and permits anyone to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work with proper attribution. APCs cover all costs and decrease the need for subscription revenue, helping to keep subscription price-per-article low (current APS APCs).
- APS makes its journals free to read at U.S. public libraries and high schools by application. Contact publisher@aps.org for more information.
- APS is a founding member of CHORUS, which enables distributed public access to published research articles reporting on U.S. federal government funded research.
- APS offers authors from lower income countries the opportunity to publish Open Access at no cost by automatically offering APC waivers for articles accepted into all Hybrid and Gold Open Access titles. Learn more here.
- APS provides free access to its subscription-based journals content for readers in lower income countries through partnerships with Research4Life and other programs. Learn more here.
Editorial Board
The PRApplied Editorial Board is a diverse, global group of active, distinguished scientists, selected by editors and appointed by the Executive Editor. Board members serve three-year terms, advising the editorial staff on various aspects of standard review and formal appeals, as well as other publication matters.
Editorial Team
PRApplied is managed by a professional editorial team of Ph.D. scientists with extensive research experience at major academic institutions and research laboratories around the world. All editorial decisions are based on PRApplied acceptance criteria.
High Visibility and Impact
PRApplied authors gain high visibility and achieve broad dissemination of their work in this interdisciplinary journal. PRApplied editors bring attention to outstanding research and elucidate its importance through a number of features:
- Online Visibility: Newly published papers are accompanied by short descriptions (teasers) and key images online.
- Special issues: PRApplied publishes collections of invited papers on special topics. The first such issue will be in memory of the late Mildred Dresselhaus, a PRApplied Editorial Board Member.
- Multimedia: Video multimedia files are being accepted for online publication in PRApplied. A video file will be linked from a static figure containing one or more “snapshot” frames from the video. See, for example, Phys. Rev. Applied 7, 054006 (2017).
- Editors’ Suggestions: Selected papers are chosen as Editors’ Suggestions to direct readers to interesting, important, and well-written articles in areas of research beyond their usual interests. They garner, on average, more downloads and citations than other papers published in the journal and are more frequently covered by news outlets.
- Featured in Physics: Editors regularly notify Physics, APS’s daily online news and commentary publication, about important papers, resulting in coverage in the forms of Synopsis, Focus, or Viewpoint.
- Publicity: APS promotes press-worthy papers from its journals to journalists through a weekly Tip Sheet, resulting in frequent coverage in industry publications and the popular press, such as Physics World and Business Insider.
- Indexing: ISI (Science Citation Index®), Scopus, Inspec, Google Scholar
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Editorial and Publishing Policies
All journals published by APS follow a common set of Editorial Policies and Practices, which cover Editorial Oversight and Decision Making, Authorship, Submissions, Resubmissions, and Transfers, Peer Review, Ethics and Research Integrity, Post Publication, and Open Access and Publications Rights.
PRApplied is published electronically one article at a time. Articles are identified by volume number and a six-digit article number, for example, Journal 1, XXXXXX (2020).
PRApplied editors can decide to accelerate the review process for a small number of manuscripts that report particularly important or groundbreaking research.