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 Physical Review Letters (PRL).
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 link from each story to the relevant APS journal article uses the APS URL formula including DOI (details) and takes readers to the free abstract page of the paper. Subscribers to the online journals can access the full text from there (subscription information). Journalists and other science writers may receive a copy of any paper published, or to be published, in Physical Review or Physical Review Letters.
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
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