AAPPS Bulletin

AAPPS Bulletin is the open access flagship journal of the Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies, published by Springer Nature since 1991, and its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 4.2《亚太物理学会联合会公报》（AAPPS Bulletin）是亚太物理学会联合会的开放获取旗舰期刊，由 Springer Nature 出版，创办于 1991 年，2025 年期刊影响因子为 4.2。

Scope

• It covers all areas of physics该刊涵盖物理学的各个领域。
• Topics include condensed matter, particle and nuclear physics选题包括凝聚态物理、粒子物理与核物理。
• Atomic, molecular and optical physics are within scope原子、分子与光物理在其范围内。
• Applied physics and interdisciplinary topics are also covered应用物理与交叉学科选题亦有所覆盖。
• It publishes reviews and research articles该刊发表综述与研究论文。
• It serves the physics communities of the Asia-Pacific region该刊服务于亚太地区的物理学界。

History

• The Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies was formed in 1990 to link the physics communities of the region亚太物理学会联合会于 1990 年成立，旨在联结区域内的物理学界。
• It launched the AAPPS Bulletin in 1991 as the association's own publication该联合会于 1991 年创办《AAPPS Bulletin》作为其自有刊物。
• The Bulletin began as a magazine that mixed association news with articles on physics, and its News and Views section continues that role该刊起初是一本把学会新闻与物理文章结合起来的杂志，其「新闻与观点」栏目延续了这一职能。
• It moved to Springer Nature in 2021 and is now published as a fully open access journal该刊于 2021 年转由 Springer Nature 出版，现为完全开放获取期刊。
• Articles are published under a Creative Commons attribution licence and are free to read and reuse with attribution文章以知识共享署名许可协议发表，可免费阅读并在署名条件下复用。
• Papers appear continuously online and are collected into an annual volume, with volume 36 current in 2026论文在线连续发表并汇入年度卷，2026 年为第 36 卷。
• It is indexed in Scopus and the Emerging Sources Citation Index该刊被 Scopus 与新兴来源引文索引（ESCI）收录。
• Its Journal Impact Factor was 5.9 in 2024 and 4.2 in 2025其影响因子 2024 年为 5.9，2025 年为 4.2。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is Gui-Lu Long, a professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing现任主编为北京清华大学的龙桂鲁教授。
• Long works on quantum information and quantum secure direct communication and has served as president of the association龙桂鲁从事量子信息与量子直接通信研究，并曾担任该联合会理事长。
• He has reported to the AAPPS council as editor-in-chief of the Bulletin, most recently in council minutes from late 2022他曾以该刊主编身份向联合会理事会汇报工作，最近见于 2022 年底的理事会纪要。
• The editorial board was expanded to one editor-in-chief, three deputy editors-in-chief, fifteen senior editors and dozens of associate editors编委会扩大为一名主编、三名副主编、十五名高级编辑以及数十名副编辑。
• New editors are appointed from the region, for example Yongchao Zhang of Southeast University, who became an associate editor in June 2025 for a three-year term新编辑从区域内遴选，例如东南大学的张永超于 2025 年 6 月出任副编辑，任期三年。
• Manuscripts undergo external peer review by referees before acceptance稿件在接收前须经外部审稿人同行评审。
• The journal promotes open science through its open access policy and free dissemination of regional physics news该刊通过开放获取政策与区域物理新闻的自由传播推动开放科学。
• Its electronic ISSN is 2309-4710该刊电子刊号为 2309-4710。