Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: The year 2020 was undoubtedly a challenging one. Most of us had to adapt to a new reality of social distancing and working from home to prevent the spreading of the new COVID-19 virus. As we all tried to master this emergency situation to the best of our abilities, one could foresee an adverse impact of laboratory closures and conference cancellations on the scientific output of the research community. While many authors and reviewers had to tackle the challenges of online teaching and disrupted childcare, they endeavored to use this time to write up results and clear their backlog. Although there is still a long way ahead of us back to “normal life”, we are looking to the immediate future with growing optimism and confidence as science intensifies its search for a remedy. Despite the fact that the majority of live scientific events were either cancelled or replaced by online forums this year, Annalen der Physik had the pleasure of featuring several successful special projects. The quantum physics community has definitely benefited from a collection of works on Dynamic Quantum Matter. The issue was initiated and guest edited by experts in the field: Alexander V. Balatsky, Jason T. Haraldsen, Annica M. Black-Schaffer, Anna Pertsova, and Philip Hofmann. It summarizes rapid progress in the field of quantum materials with a particular focus on dynamics, including entangled orders, quantum coherence, and quantum topology. If you have not done so yet, we invite you to familiarize yourself with this state-of-the-art research and get inspired by recent achievements. The November issue of Annalen der Physik is focused on Thermoelectric Materials, which is a prominent example of a stronger applied physics focus in our broad-scope physics journal. Together with our respected Guest Editors Tiejun Zhu, Li-Dong Zhao and Chenguang Fu, Annalen der Physik has dived into the depths of recent advances of thermoelectrics to discover that practical applications are closely connected with fundamental electron and phonon transport mechanisms in the solid-state materials. We are confident that this special issue will stimulate further progress in the field. More exciting news that we would like to share with our readership comes in the form of new research opportunities in high-energy physics and related fields, as outlined in the Feature Article ‘Atomic Physics Studies at the Gamma Factory at CERN’. According to the authors this initiative will enable ground-breaking experiments with partially stripped ion beams and open novel ways of testing fundamental symmetries of nature. We are particularly honored that this impressive outlook article was open-access published in Annalen der Physik, and we are also looking forward to further cooperation with the lead authors and their colleagues, Dmitry Budker, Mikhail Gorshteyn, Witold Krasny, Adriana Palffy, and Andrey Surzhykov, who have agreed to guest-edit a topically related special issue ‘Physics Opportunities with the Gamma Factory’ in the upcoming year. If you or your colleagues have a new idea for a promising special issue or overview article project of any scope or size, you are always very welcome to contact us at [email protected]. Last but clearly not least, it is with great joy and pride that we announce the Stern–Gerlach Medal award and upcoming DPG presidency term for Prof. Joachim Ullrich, President of the German Metrology institute PTB and previously Guest Editor of “The Revised SI: Fundamental Constants, Basic Physics and Units” special issue published in Annalen der Physik in 2019 . We sincerely value the support provided to our journal and wish Prof. Ullrich much success in his new role as head of the world's biggest physics society. On the subject of occasions to celebrate, Annalen der Physik has received an increased Impact Factor of 3.317 (Journal Citation Reports, Clarivate Analytics, 2020). This achievement is undoubtedly due to the joint effort of all our authors, reviewers, guest editors and readers. Therefore, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to all who contribute to the journal's development. We, as editorial team, will do our best to meet your growing quality expectations both in terms of content and publication services. In this respect, we would like to mention a couple of workflow enhancements which are important steps towards further making your publication experience with us as pleasant and easy as possible. There is also good news for the supporters of open research initiatives as Wiley is expanding its Open Access offerings worldwide and has already eased the preprint policy. The latter is particularly important for many physics authors who tend to post their manuscripts on arXiv.org. Wiley now has a number of agreements in place with entire countries, institutions, and funders to help authors to publish open access (OnlineOpen). In particular, a landmark agreement was signed with Projekt DEAL, which provides access to most of Wiley's content for the vast majority of German academic and research institutions. Moreover, it allows corresponding authors based at these institutions to publish their articles in our journals with retained copyright under a Creative Commons (CC) license, while publication costs are centrally covered. Find out if your institution is a participant of this or other Open Access programs at Wiley here. A new licensing workflow was rolled out recently, as part of which all license signing (Copyright Transfer Agreements and CC licenses) is now handled in Author Services. This makes it easier for corresponding authors, especially those who are eligible for OnlineOpen, to choose the most suitable publication conditions for their articles. Towards the end of last year, we also simplified the submission and manuscript transfer process for authors. The most notable change is the discontinuation of Rapid Research Letters and Original Papers, which have been replaced by a unified Research Article type that can contain original research studies of any length. There is now also a single and likewise flexible Review article format for all overview contributions. More information on the article types can be found here. We believe this is a significant step towards making life easier for our authors, readers, and reviewers as it greatly reduces the need for formatting in general and reformatting after transfer to a sister journal. While we welcome submissions using our generic Word and LaTeX manuscript templates (valid for all physics and materials journals), we in essence allow free-format submissions containing all prerequisite elements. On this optimistic note we wish you a happy and, first and foremost, a healthy 2021!
Source: Annalen der Physik
Authors: Nadezda Panarina, James Cook, Dimitra Gkogkou, Anja Habermann, Julia Hübner, Adrian Miller, Huan Wang, Stefan Hildebrandt, the editorial team of Annalen der Physik
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3125964530