Advanced Physics Research

About Advanced Physics Research

Advanced Physics Research — Journal Profile

Advanced Physics Research is an international, open-access physics journal published by Wiley-VCH GmbH in Weinheim, Germany. Its online ISSN is 2751-1200, the identifier recorded in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and displayed on the Wiley Online Library journal page, and the same number is listed by Wiley-VCH as the journal's print ISSN in its shop catalogue. That single ISSN matters practically: it is the key that links this record to the correct title in library catalogues, in Crossref, and in indexing services. It also separates this journal from several older, similarly named physics titles. Advances in Physics, for example, is a Taylor & Francis review journal with entirely different ISSNs, and Advances in Physics: X is a different title again. Authors checking a journal offer, librarians validating a subscription-free title, and readers following a citation should therefore confirm the 2751-1200 ISSN and the article DOI prefix 10.1002/apxr before assuming that a page, a metric, or a call for papers belongs to Advanced Physics Research.

The journal is a recent entrant with a deliberately broad remit. Wiley launched it in the summer of 2022 as part of its Advanced portfolio, and its first issue appeared in December 2022. DOAJ records that it has published in open access since 2022. In a field where many flagship titles are decades old, a journal founded in 2022 should be read on the strength of its publisher, its editorial leadership, its stated review standards, and the work it has actually published — not on inherited reputation. This profile therefore distinguishes carefully between facts verified from Wiley and DOAJ, publisher-displayed performance figures that change over time, and matters that could not be verified from public sources consulted for this profile.

Quick Facts

Publisher and Portfolio Context

Wiley-VCH is the German publishing house within Wiley that handles much of Wiley's physics and materials list, including the long-established Advanced materials family. Advanced Physics Research was positioned as the physics counterpart to that family: a broad-scope, open-access platform leaning, in Wiley's own launch description, on the editorial standards and publishing services of the Advanced journals. For authors, portfolio context is not decoration. It affects manuscript handling systems, production quality, copy-editing, figure handling, marketing reach, and the likelihood that a paper is seen by readers of neighbouring titles in condensed matter, materials, and photonics. It also affects expectations: a portfolio journal is expected to decline work that is sound but routine, and to prioritise results its editors judge important for a wider physics audience.

That positioning explains the journal's editorial language. Wiley describes a fast publication platform with a strong emphasis on important and relevant current topics. Speed claims should always be read as medians rather than promises. The journal page displayed, at the time this profile was researched, a median of 22 days from submission to first decision, an acceptance rate of 65 percent, and a Journal Impact Factor figure of 3.4. Those three numbers are publisher-displayed snapshots. They can change with each reporting cycle, and none of them guarantees an outcome for an individual manuscript. They are useful for comparing editorial tempo across journals on the same day; they are not a substitute for reading recent issues.

Scope: The Full Breadth of Physics

The scope published by Wiley-VCH is unusually wide, and it is reproduced here in summarised form because scope fit is the single most common reason broad journals decline papers at editorial screening. The listed areas are condensed matter physics, materials physics, and semiconductor physics; the physics of correlated systems, quantum physics, magnetism, spintronics, and superconductivity; optics, photonics, and plasmonics; atomic and molecular physics; surface and interface physics; mesoscopic physics, nanophysics, and biophysics; chemical physics, polymer physics, and soft matter physics; computational and mathematical physics; the physics of socio-economic systems and statistical physics; climate physics and geophysics; high-energy and particle physics; nuclear physics and plasma physics; and astrophysics and cosmology. DOAJ condenses the same territory into the keywords physics, materials physics, quantum physics, climate physics, mathematical physics, and astrophysics, under the Library of Congress heading Science: Physics.

A scope this broad creates both opportunity and risk. The opportunity is a home for work that crosses subfield boundaries: a paper on strain-tunable light emission from germanium quantum dots, for instance, touches semiconductor physics, photonics, and silicon-compatible device engineering at once, and would sit awkwardly in a narrow device journal. The risk is that a technically competent paper with importance only inside a very small specialism may be judged too local for a broad platform. Authors should therefore write the cover letter and the introduction for a physicist one field away, explaining what changes outside the immediate specialism if the result is correct. Editors screening for a broad journal ask exactly that question.

What the Journal Has Actually Published

Recent content visible through the journal's own pages and through Crossref records matched to its ISSN illustrates how the scope works in practice. Review and research topics in the recent stream include two-dimensional van der Waals antiferromagnets and their fabrication and control; the diffusion-governed growth of gallium arsenide islands on silicon nanotip arrays for CMOS-compatible integration; heterostructured semiconductors for chemical and biochemical sensing; work on beating the standard quantum limit with single-photon-added coherent states; Raman responses of monolayer graphene under molecular adsorption; polymer-based probabilistic bits proposed for thermodynamic computing; superconductivity in transition-metal hydride compounds studied by first-principles calculation; and strain-tunable photoluminescence from germanium quantum dots on silicon nanotips. Earlier highlighted work includes reviews on dielectric chiral metasurfaces, on Mott memristors for neuromorphic computing, and on quantum mechanics in plasmonic nanocavities.

Read together, those examples show a centre of gravity. The journal leans towards condensed matter, materials, quantum science, and photonics, while still publishing mathematical and high-energy-adjacent theory. They also show the level of presentation expected: graphical abstracts, results framed around a device or conceptual advance, and reviews that map a fast-moving area rather than merely listing papers. A prospective author whose manuscript resembles the experimental and theoretical papers above in ambition and clarity is plausibly in scope; a purely incremental measurement report, however careful, faces a harder editorial conversation.

Article Types and How to Choose Between Them

Wiley's description lists three main article types. Research Articles present original experimental or theoretical results. Reviews survey and organise an area, and in a young broad journal they carry particular weight because they are heavily read and cited, define the journal's map of a field, and are often commissioned or pre-discussed with editors. Perspectives are shorter, forward-looking pieces that argue a position, highlight an emerging direction, or comment on the significance of recent developments. The launch editorial record also shows topical collections playing a role in the journal's development, with special issues noted on topological physics, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, quantum anomalies, and magnetic materials.

Choosing the right type matters for review outcomes. A review that reads as an annotated bibliography will struggle; the journal expects synthesis, comparison, and judgement about open problems. A Perspective that simply repeats the authors' latest results will also struggle; the genre requires a wider lens. For Research Articles, free-format initial submission, noted in the journal's early editorial guidance, lowers the mechanical burden of a first submission, but it does not lower the scientific bar: completeness of methods, data, and error analysis are judged at review regardless of formatting.

Peer Review, Editorial Leadership, and Decision Speed

The journal is peer reviewed, checks submissions for plagiarism according to DOAJ, and is led, on the Wiley page consulted for this profile, by Editor-in-Chief Gaia Tomasello with Deputy Editors Jayita Patwari, Somananda Sanyal, and Christiana Varnava. Editorial rosters change, so authors should confirm the current masthead on the journal page before addressing a presubmission enquiry. In portfolio journals of this type, professional in-house editors typically conduct the first screen, select referees, and make decisions with referee advice; the named leadership sets criteria and handles appeals and special content.

DOAJ gives an average expectation of about 17 weeks from submission to publication, while Wiley displayed a 22-day median to first decision. Those figures describe different intervals — a first decision is not acceptance, and acceptance is not publication — and both are aggregates across many manuscripts. A paper sent to multiple referee rounds will take longer. Authors planning around grant reports, thesis deadlines, or priority claims should build in generous margin and should never treat a median as a service guarantee. Where timing is critical, the honest route is a presubmission enquiry describing the result and the deadline, allowing the editorial office to say whether the timetable is realistic.

Open Access, Charges, and Rights

Advanced Physics Research is fully open access. DOAJ records a CC BY licence, meaning articles may be shared and adapted with attribution, and records that authors retain unrestricted copyright and publishing rights. Open access here is funded by article processing charges. DOAJ lists charges up to 2,960 US dollars, 2,030 pounds sterling, or 2,480 euros, and notes that a waiver policy exists. The currency charged, the exact amount at acceptance, and any institutional coverage depend on the publisher's current price list, the author's institution, and any transformative or read-and-publish agreement in place. Authors should check, before submission, whether their institution has a Wiley agreement that covers this title, whether their funder requires a specific licence or a zero-embargo repository deposit, and whether they qualify for a waiver or discount. Discovering the charge only at acceptance is the most common avoidable problem in open-access publishing.

Permanent identification and preservation are in place. Articles carry DOIs under the 10.1002/apxr prefix, and DOAJ records digital archiving in CLOCKSS and Portico, the two major dark-archive services that preserve journal content if a publisher platform fails. Authors may also deposit work in repositories according to the journal's deposit policy recorded through Open Policy Finder; with a CC BY licence, the published version itself is freely reusable with attribution, which simplifies teaching use, inclusion in theses, and text-and-data mining.

Indexing and Metrics: Reading the Signals Carefully

Wiley announced that the journal was ranked in the second quartile (Q2) in the Physics, Applied and Physics, Condensed Matter categories of Clarivate's Emerging Sources Citation Index, 2024 edition. The journal page displayed an Impact Factor figure of 3.4 at research time, without this profile assigning it to a specific Journal Citation Reports year beyond the publisher's current display; readers who need the figure for an evaluation file should capture the dated Journal Citation Reports entry directly. Being in the Emerging Sources Citation Index means the journal passed Clarivate's quality criteria for inclusion in the Web of Science Core Collection's emerging tier; it is a meaningful threshold for a journal launched in 2022, but it is not the same as inclusion in the Science Citation Index Expanded, and evaluators in some countries and institutions grade the tiers differently.

No verified Scopus CiteScore, SCImago quartile independent of the ESCI announcement, or h-index is asserted in this profile, because figures from aggregator sites for a title this young vary widely and could not be confirmed against Scopus or SCImago directly during this research. That restraint is deliberate. Directory profiles that print a precise-looking metric without a source and year mislead authors making career decisions. Use the ISSN on the Scopus source list and on Clarivate's Master Journal List for a live check on the day you need it.

Who Should Submit — and Who Probably Should Not

Good candidates are experimental and theoretical physicists with a complete, well-characterised result of interest beyond a single specialism: a new material behaviour, a device-relevant quantum or photonic effect, a computational method with broad applicability, or a theoretical advance that reorganises how a class of problems is understood. Review authors with a genuine map of an emerging area, including its controversies, are also well matched. The journal's breadth suits interdisciplinary manuscripts that might be passed between narrow journals, provided the physics contribution is central rather than incidental.

Poorer candidates include purely local characterisation studies with no wider implication drawn, incremental parameter variations, engineering optimisation with minimal physics insight, and manuscripts whose literature base ignores recent work in the journal itself. Authors in those positions will usually reach a suitable audience faster in a specialist title. A useful self-test before submission is to name, in one sentence, the result, the audience outside your group, and the figure that proves it. If any of the three cannot be stated, the manuscript needs more work or a different venue.

Practical Submission Guidance

Prepare the manuscript so a busy editor can assess it in minutes: a title that names the system and the finding, an abstract that states the problem, the method, the quantitative result, and the implication, and a graphical presentation that stands alone. Follow the current Wiley author guidelines for reference style, data statements, and supporting information, even where free-format submission is permitted, because accepted papers must eventually meet those requirements and early compliance speeds production. Declare funding, competing interests, and any related manuscripts under consideration elsewhere at submission. Suggest referees with genuine expertise and no recent collaboration, and be ready to supply underlying data: physics journals increasingly test reproducibility at review, and missing data files are a frequent cause of delay.

On acceptance, confirm the licence (CC BY is the recorded standard), the exact processing charge and its payer, and the proof timetable before signing. Check proofs for figure resolution, author-name spelling, affiliations, and funding acknowledgements; corrections after online publication are public and permanent. After publication, the CC BY terms let you share the final article freely — deposit it in your institutional repository, link it from preprints with the DOI, and present the graphical abstract in talks to build the readership that broad-scope journals depend on.

Verification Notes and Limits of This Profile

The identity of this record was verified in three independent ways: the ISSN 2751-1200 shown on the JournalsWorld record and its Crossref-matched recent articles carry the 10.1002/apxr DOI prefix belonging to this title; DOAJ's entry under the same ISSN names Wiley-VCH in Germany as publisher; and Wiley's own journal page displays the same ISSN, editor names, and metrics cited here. Charges, medians, acceptance rate, and the displayed Impact Factor figure are time-sensitive publisher and directory data recorded in October 2026 research and should be re-checked before a submission decision. The editor roster is likewise a snapshot. No claim is made in this profile about a Scopus ranking, a CiteScore, or an h-index, because none could be verified from a primary source during this research; treat any such figure found on an aggregator page as unverified until confirmed in Scopus itself.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Advanced Physics Research the same as Advances in Physics? No. They are different journals from different publishers with different ISSNs. This journal is the Wiley-VCH open-access title with ISSN 2751-1200, launched in 2022.

Is the journal fully open access? Yes. DOAJ lists it as open access since 2022 under a CC BY licence, with authors retaining unrestricted copyright, funded by an article processing charge for which a waiver policy exists.

How fast is it? Wiley displayed a 22-day median to first decision, and DOAJ gives about 17 weeks from submission to publication on average. Both are aggregates, not guarantees.

What does it cost? DOAJ lists up to 2,960 USD, 2,030 GBP, or 2,480 EUR. Institutional agreements may cover some or all of the charge; confirm before submitting.

Which language does it accept? English, according to both Wiley-VCH and DOAJ.