Journal Guide
Publishing in PRX Quantum: Fit, Timeline & Submission Guide
Exceptional quantum-science advances with broad, lasting impact
Should you submit here?
Submit if the paper should demonstrate an exceptional advance, connection, capability, or insight rather than incremental specialist novelty. Be careful if an improvement needs a clear constraint, baseline, and evidence that shows why it changes the field.
Best fit if
The paper should demonstrate an exceptional advance, connection, capability, or insight rather than incremental specialist novelty
Not ideal if
An improvement needs a clear constraint, baseline, and evidence that shows why it changes the field
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12.3
Impact Factor
Not publicly reported
Acceptance Rate
5 days before review; 58 days after review (2025 APS aggregates)
Time to First Decision
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What PRX Quantum Publishes
PRX Quantum is an APS fully open-access journal for exceptional, lasting advances, connections, capabilities, and insights across quantum science and technology.
- Quantum information science and technology
- Quantum computing, networking, sensing, and simulation
- Quantum theory, experiment, engineering, and computer science
- Interdisciplinary quantum-science connections
Editor Insight
“PRX Quantum fit depends on an exceptional quantum-science contribution, evidence that carries the claim, and a Popular Summary that makes the significance accessible beyond one specialty.”
What PRX Quantum Editors Look For
Exceptional contribution
The paper should demonstrate an exceptional advance, connection, capability, or insight rather than incremental specialist novelty.
Broad quantum relevance
Explain why the contribution matters across the multidisciplinary quantum-science community.
An accessible significance story
A nontechnical Popular Summary should state the problem, advance, implication, and long-term importance without jargon.
A complete data and source route
Prepare the Data Availability Statement and usable source and supplemental files before the initial package.
Why Papers Get Rejected
These patterns appear repeatedly in manuscripts that don't make it past PRX Quantum's editorial review:
A technical gain without a consequential comparison
An improvement needs a clear constraint, baseline, and evidence that shows why it changes the field.
A cross-disciplinary promise without an evidentiary bridge
Broad relevance should be visible in the result and discussion, not only in motivation.
A Popular Summary that only shortens jargon
The required summary is a test of whether the contribution can be understood outside a narrow specialty.
Does your manuscript avoid these patterns?
The Free Readiness Scan reads your full manuscript against PRX Quantum's criteria and flags the specific issues most likely to cause rejection.
Insider Tips from PRX Quantum Authors
Choose one exceptional criterion
Make the advance, connection, capability, or insight explicit and support it across the package.
Draft the Popular Summary before the cover letter
If the significance story cannot be stated plainly, reconsider the route or narrow the claim.
The PRX Quantum Submission Process
Test scope and exceptional impact
Before uploadIdentify the APS exceptional criterion and the evidence that proves the claim reaches a broad quantum-science audience.
Prepare the initial package
Initial submissionBuild a reviewable PDF, usable LaTeX or Word source, cover letter, data statement, and relevant supplemental materials.
Draft the Popular Summary
Before publication; best prepared before submissionPrepare a succinct nontechnical explanation of the problem, advance, direct implication, and long-term significance.
Submit through APS
Initial submissionUse the current APS PRX Quantum author workflow and verify live policy and charge details before committing.
PRX Quantum by the Numbers
| 2025 Journal Impact Factor(APS journal page) | 12.3 |
| First decision before review(2025 APS aggregate) | 5 days |
| First decision after review(2025 APS aggregate) | 58 days |
| Online ISSN | 2691-3399 |
Before you submit
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Article Types
Research Article
Original quantum-science research meeting PRX Quantum's editorial criteria.
Perspective
Forward-looking focused article, generally invited; proposals may be considered.
Tutorial
Hands-on guide to established quantum concepts and techniques, generally invited.
Roadmap
Community-driven strategic document, generally invited; detailed proposals may be considered.
Landmark PRX Quantum Papers
Papers that defined fields and changed science:
- Quantum computing advances
- Quantum-networking research
- Quantum-sensing and simulation studies
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