Physical Review Focus is a free service of the American Physical Society (APS). Focus stories explain selected physics research published in the APS journals Physical Review (PR) and
Selection Criteria
Since the main goal of the service is to communicate current research
beyond the bounds of a physics sub-discipline, the selection criteria
for Focus differ from those of a research journal. Papers will often
be chosen based on educational value and intrinsic interest to non-specialists,
rather than simply on scientific merit. Research that is well-covered
by other sources may also be passed over in favor of less-publicized work.
Journal Articles
Our links to APS journal articles use the simple "link manager"
formula (details)
and take readers to the free abstract page of the paper. Subscribers
to the online journals can access the full text from there (subscription
information). Journalists can obtain free copies of the papers
from
Physics News Select Articles (write to physnews@aip.org
to get a username and password) or from the Focus Editor.
Copyrights
Focus stories may only be reprinted
with permission from the American Physical Society (write to assocpub@aps.org).
Image copyrights are owned by those named in the image credits. Images may not be displayed elsewhere on the Web or otherwise reproduced without permission of the copyright owners.
Credits
Editor
David Ehrenstein, physrevfocus [at] aps.org
Contacts
story suggestions (PR and PRL authors see below), editorial issues: physrevfocus [at] aps.org
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APS Authors:
If you are an author of an upcoming paper in an APS journal, please see Publicity and Outreach
Instructions for Authors to suggest your paper for a Focus story.
