The American Physical Society (APS) launched Physical Review X (PRX) three years ago, asa new member of the APS journal family. What is its role in the family?To answer this question, it may be instructive to look briefly at how the APS journal family, withits current make-up, serves the needs and interests of the physics community. The APS journalfamily offers authors a variety of venues for their articles. Researchers can choose betweenPhysical Review Letters (PRL), our large, selective, broad-scope, letter-format journal that is themost cited in physics, and the other Physical Review journals that publish new and significantresults in different fields of physics. True to the APS mission to advance physics and serve theglobal physics community, our journals belong, not to a for-profit corporation, but to physicists allover the world who work hard for the journals as authors, reviewers, and editorial board members.The decision of which articles to publish is based on their scientific merit, rather than on what is“newsworthy” or “hot,” and on their sound scholarly presentation rather than “hype.”
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