Applied Physics Express or APEX is a scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 publishing letters, with usually no more than three pages per (concise) article. The main purpose is to rapidly publish original, timely, and novel research papers

Academic publishing

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 in applied physics

Applied physics

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. As part of its aim, the journal intends for papers to be novel research that has a strong impact on relevant fields and society

Society

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. It is notable that the journal considers satisfaction of this criterion as showing the paper merits priority handling in the review

Peer review

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 and publication processes

Academic publishing

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. In keeping with this aim, its issues are published online on a weekly basis. The print version is published monthly.

The journal is the successor of Japanese Journal of Applied Physics

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics

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 Part 2, i.e., the letter and express letter sections. The two editors-in-chief

Editor in chief

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 are Hitoshi Tabata (University of Tokyo

University of Tokyo

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) and Kouichi Ono (Kyoto University

Kyoto University

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).

Indexing and abstracting

APEX is abstracted and indexed in Journal Citation Reports

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, SCImago Journal Rank

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, SCOPUS

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, Science Citation Index

Science Citation Index

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, and Current Contents.

See also

• Optical Review
  Optical Review
  Optical Review is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, established in 1994 and published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of the Optical Society of Japan . It publishes research and review papers in all branches of optics on a bimonthly basis. All articles are written in English...
  
  
• Japan Society of Applied Physics
  Japan Society of Applied Physics
  , abbreviated as JSAP, is a Japanese group of researchers in the applied physics field. JSAP originated in 1932 from a voluntary forum of researchers belonging to the University of Tokyo and the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research. During World War II, most research, even applied, was frozen...
  
  
• Physical Society of Japan
• Optical Society of Japan
  Optical Society of Japan
  The Optical Society of Japan is professional organization of physicist doing research in Optics.The Optical Society of Japan was founded in 1952 as a division of the Japan Society of Applied Physics...