Physics Colloquium

Yiming Xu, Associate Editor,  American Physical Society 


Title: PRX: What Kind of Papers We are Looking for? 


Abstract: PRX is published by the American Physical Society, a nonprofit membership society of scientists.  Its mission goal is to select around 250 *landmark* papers a year from all fields of physics and showcase them to a broad and multidisciplinary readership.  

Is your paper a good match for PRX?  Or asked differently, what papers qualify as *landmark* papers?  

How do the PRX editors actually select such papers?  Are such selections always accurate?

How can you, as an author, navigate PRX’s editorial and peer-review process effectively and get the most out of your interactions with the editors and referees? 

I will use the talk to discuss with you how to answer these questions.  Many of these questions do not have a black-and-white answer in the case of a single paper.  Open-minded, reasoned, and constructive dialogues amongst the authors, the editors, and the referees are key to making each concrete process a meaningful and productive experience, and sometimes even a pleasure, for everyone.