PRX Energy

Our reviewers play a pivotal role in ensuring integrity and quality in our publications, and we deeply value the commitments and efforts of every reviewer.

The six new studies present high-quality findings at the intersection of AI, machine learning, and the physical sciences.

The policy allows authors and reviewers to use AI tools and establishes boundaries to preserve human oversight and accountability.

Nominations for three Chemical Physics prizes are due June 1st.

For the first time, we’re offering perpetual rights as an optional enhancement to your APS All subscription. Own the most influential physics research for years to come with Frontlist Perpetual Rights.

Ten high-quality studies by authors from around the world have found a home in the American Physical Society’s new community-driven, open access journal.

APS has selected 156 Outstanding Referees for 2026 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.

APS is pleased to announce that Margaret Hudson has been selected as chief editor of PRX Energy. Her tenure in this role began on Jan. 5, 2026.

APS Open Science will provide a community-driven platform that broadens recognition for high-quality physics research across all stages of discovery.

PRX Intelligence will publish high-impact research on artificial intelligence and machine learning that advances the physical sciences.

We recognize that the ongoing U.S. government shutdown is affecting many in the scientific community, including authors and reviewers of the Physical Review journals, by delaying projects, disrupting funding, and creating uncertainty.

Three APS members have received the prize for experiments with a handheld system that revealed quantum physics in action.

Submit your paper on carbon capture, utilization, and storage for consideration in PRX Energy’s collection. We welcome modeling, materials- and chemistry-based research, techno-economic analysis, and more.

Collection: Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage

Deadline: December 31, 2025

“Open Reports” will allow details from the peer review process to be published alongside articles.

High rankings demonstrate the impact, reach, and influence of the American Physical Society’s journals.

The ‘About’ pages for each APS journal have recently been updated with new data from the 2024 Journal Citation Reports (2025, Clarivate), CiteScore (Scopus Elsevier) and SCImago Journal Rank (SCImago). View the metrics of the entire library on the Journal Metrics page.

The American Physical Society proudly announces the launch of The Physics Archive, a comprehensive digital library that covers 120 years of groundbreaking research from the world-renowned Physical Review journals.

The American Physical Society has received the leading score among publishers participating in the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP³) in the first evaluation of open science practices in scholarly publishing. With high marks in elements like accessibility, data availability, and article metadata, the Society earned a total score of 20.18 out of 25 — almost double that of the next highest scorer.

APS has selected 160 Outstanding Referees for 2025 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.

In this Guest Editorial, Daniel L. Sanchez explores a science policy report issued by the American Physical Society, shedding light on the critical role carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies could play in managing carbon dioxide levels. While reducing emissions remains the cornerstone, CDR technologies offer promise.

We are excited to announce updates to our journals platform, offering enhanced accessibility features designed to provide a more inclusive experience.

The Physical Review journals would like to congratulate John J. Hopfield of Princeton University and Geoffrey E. Hinton of the University of Toronto for sharing the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics. The prize was awarded for “foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

The policy requires authors to explain where research data can be found starting Sept. 4.

Clarivate Analytics has released the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, which provides journal impact factors and rankings for over 11,000 scholarly journals.

In this Editorial, our Chief Editor interviews Professor and entrepreneur Gleb Yushin to explore battery production and technology, discussing open challenges, considering academic-industry disparities, and offering guidance for those aspiring to contribute to the field.

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.

Offer includes Journal Access and waived article publication charges to Scientists in 100+ Lower and Middle Income Countries

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.”

APS Editor in Chief, Randall D. Kamien, discusses the importance and impact of journal reviewers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We mourn the passing of George Crabtree, an APS Fellow and Editorial Board Member for PRX Energy. He was a pioneer in energy research and truly an inspiration. He will be greatly missed by all of us.

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.

PRX Energy has published its first Tutorial, “Phase boundary mapping to engineer defects in thermoelectric materials” by Leah Borgsmiller, Duncan Zavanelli and G. Jeffrey Snyder, Northwestern University.

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.

APS is now accepting nominations of members, including self-nominations, for the newly restructured role of APS Editor in Chief (EIC).

PRX Energy is pleased to publish the report “Monitoring Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Operations” (Collins et al.) sponsored by the American Physical Society’s Panel on Public Affairs and by Optica (formerly the Optical Society of America) [1]. Both societies have long been committed to informing public debate on policy issues where the societies’ science communities have relevant expertise. This report identifies specific research directions and policy initiatives that would improve the detection of large methane leaks in the oil and gas sector.

Lead Editor, David Scanlon, and Managing Editor, Jacilynn Otero, are delighted to introduce the first issue of PRX Energy. They are excited for it to take shape as a leading, fully open access journal for the multidisciplinary energy science and technology research communities, and invite you to help build this new highly selective journal.

PRX Energy is a highly selective open access journal from APS that publishes important advances in energy science and technology for the benefit of humanity. Article publication charges (APCs) will be waived for a limited time.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Opening for submissions later this year, PRX Energy is a new, highly selective open access journal from APS that will communicate and facilitate important advances in energy science and technology for the benefit of humanity. Article publication charges (APCs) will be waived for a limited time.