Physical Review X is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by the American Physical Society covering all branches of pure, applied, and interdisciplinary physics. It is part of the Physical Review family of journals.[1] Since 2022, Ling Miao was appointed full-time chief editor, while Denis Bartolo from École normale supérieure de Lyon is the current lead editor. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2021 impact factor of 14.417.[2]
The journal was announced in January 2011[3] and began publishing papers in August 2011. An early editorial outlined the journal's publishing philosophy.[4] The first editor was Jorge Pullin.