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PV IV

PV IV: Special Talk

Monday, March 16, 2015, 13:15–13:45, HE 101

Inside PRL — •Reinhardt Schuhmann — Physical Review Letter, Ridge, New York, U.S.A.

Physical Review Letters receives ~12000 submissions per year, and publishes about 1/4 of them. Editors decide what to publish with extensive input from peer review, with roughly 70% of manuscripts reviewed. My talk will provide an outline of how PRL manages peer review for such large numbers of manuscripts, while maintaining its presence as the premier physics journal - it is the most cited physics journal, with a Letter cited roughly every 90 seconds.

PRL faces many challenges, however, as the publishing trends in some areas of physics shift, for example to smaller, less comprehensive, or more interdisciplinary venues. This is particularly the case for the areas of physics covered at this DPG meeting. I will discuss some of these challenges, and what PRL is doing, and plans to do, to maintain a competitive journal that covers the full arc of physics. I would greatly appreciate your feedback and questions during and after the talk.