One year of Advanced Physics Research

In December 2022, the open-access journal Advanced Physics Research (APXR) celebrated an important milestone—the first issue was published. This new platform aims to publish papers covering the whole gamut of physics, from applied to fundamental, with a strong emphasis on important and relevant current topics, such as condensed matter physics, materials physics, semiconductor physics, etc.

Although only one year old, the journal has achieved a unique role among physics publishing platforms as a new home for excellent results; up to now, 137 articles have been accepted, including Research Articles, Reviews, and Perspectives. Among these, the new journal has published its first article by a Nobel Laureate, “Time-Resolved Photoemission Electron Microscopy on a ZnO Surface Using an Extreme Ultraviolet Attosecond Pulse Pair”, DOI 10.1002/apxr.202300122 by Anne L'Huillier and co-authors. Moreover, topical special issues on Topological Physics, guest-edited by Xiaotian Wang and Gang Zhang; Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS), guest-edited by Ramon Angel Alvarez Puebla and Xing Yi Ling; Quantum Anomalies, guest-edited by Michael Thompson Pettes and Avadh Behari Saxena; and Magnetic Materials, guest-edited by Marco Berritta and Joseph Barker, are ongoing.

Advanced Physics Research serves the whole needs and entire interests of the physics community. The journal offers free format submission for a fast and simple submission process, please see the Author Guidelines for more information. The peer-review process involves highly personalized communication among authors, reviewers, and editors. Frequently specific and tough questions are posed to authors, and they need to be open to significant changes of their work. These efficient, insightful, and fruitful exchanges facilitate great articles in the end. Many thanks to the numerous experts who devote considerable and valuable time to maintaining the high quality of the papers. The most accessed articles are listed here to broadcast journal topics and to further improve article visibility.

The journal has not only been intensely supported by authors and reviewers but also by the Editorial Advisory Board members, who help make decisions on difficult cases such as appeals. The board members provide timely and informal advice on the journal's scope and strategy and sometimes also serve as ambassadors for the journal. The cooperation among different roles ensures that the journal runs well. We say thank you to everyone who has contributed to the success of Advanced Physics Research.

Advanced Physics Research is promoting an inclusive open communication platform for connecting readers, authors, reviewers, editors, and board members with the content and tools they need, which leads Advanced Physics Research to be an excellent home for articles with publication based on scientific merit alone. The open access publication model is undoubtedly benefitting the visibility of the published articles, more details about open access advantages can be found here. Moreover, your open access article publication charge (APC) may be covered by your institution, please check and read about our transformative, institutional, and funder agreements available in many world regions, and discover the different options for publishing open access, copyright licenses, and more.

This is only the first step in our efforts, and Advanced Physics Research will continue to meet the needs of the academic community for the next year and beyond.

With best regards,

The editorial team of Advanced Physics Research

Huan Wang (Editor-in-Chief)

Richard Murray

Nadezda Panarina

Gaia Tomasello

Stefan Hildebrandt