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Physical Review X Template

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Physical Review X is a peer-reviewed journal published by American Physical Society, covering Quantum Information and Cryptography, Topological Materials and Phenomena, Quantum many-body systems. Over its lifetime it has published 3,324 papers, which have received 223,310 citations.

PublisherAmerican Physical Society
Reference styleNumbered (APS)
Numbered — [1], [2] in the text
[1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, Physical Review X 12, 45 (2023).

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Publishes research inQuantum Information and Cryptography Topological Materials and Phenomena Quantum many-body systems Quantum and electron transport phenomena Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
ISSN2160-3308
Citation impact (2-yr)9.68
h-index207
i10-index2,501
Article processing charge$4,200
Open accessYes — indexed in DOAJ
Top institutions publishing hereCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Journal websitejournals.aps.org
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Papers published in Physical Review X per year

228
2014
178
2015
205
2016
234
2017
285
2018
243
2019
292
2020
271
2021
224
2022
194
2023
244
2024
340
2025

Citation impact of Physical Review X by publication year

19K
2014
24.9K
2015
22.2K
2016
22.2K
2017
28.7K
2018
24.1K
2019
18K
2020
15.3K
2021
10.6K
2022
9.6K
2023
4.5K
2024
2.3K
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Physical Review X

GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs

B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott et al. · 4 Sep 2019

We present the results from three gravitational-wave searches for coalescing compact binaries with component masses above <a:math xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><a:mrow><a:mn>1</a:mn><a:mtext> </a:mtext><a:mtext> </a:mtext><a:msub><a:mrow><a:mi>M</a:mi></a:mrow><a:mrow><a:mo stretchy="false">⊙</a:mo></a:mrow></a:msub></a:mrow></a:math> during the first and second observing runs of the advanced gravitational-wave detector network. During the first observing run (<d:math xmlns:d="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><d:mi>O</d:mi><d:mn>1</d:mn></d:math>), from September 12, 2015 to January 19, 2016, gravitational waves from three…

3,618 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First Half of the Third Observing Run

R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, S. Abraham et al. · 9 Jun 2021

We report on gravitational-wave discoveries from compact binary coalescences detected by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo in the first half of the third observing run (O3a) between 1 April 2019 <a:math xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><a:mrow><a:mn>15</a:mn><a:mo>∶</a:mo><a:mn>00</a:mn></a:mrow></a:math> UTC and 1 October 2019 <c:math xmlns:c="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><c:mrow><c:mn>15</c:mn><c:mo>∶</c:mo><c:mn>00</c:mn></c:mrow></c:math> UTC. By imposing a false-alarm-rate threshold of two per year in each of the…

2,026 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Experimental Discovery of Weyl Semimetal TaAs

B. Q. Lv, H. M. Weng, B. B. Fu et al. · 31 Jul 2015

Weyl fermions possess exotic properties and can act like magnetic monopoles. Researchers show that TaAs is a Weyl semimetal, demonstrating for the first time that Weyl semimetals can be identified experimentally.

1,704 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

Physical Review X template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the Physical Review X format?
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What reference style does Physical Review X use?
Physical Review X uses Numbered (APS) references, shown as numbered [1], [2] markers in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: [1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, Physical Review X 12, 45 (2023).
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APS Physical Review X. It is a physics journal, published by American Physical Society.
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