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Physics News Update
Number 90 (Story #3), August 4, 1992 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein

PHYSICAL REVIEW AND PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS continue to grow. Together these physics journals received 14,600 submissions in 1991, 8% more than in 1990. Foreign submissions accounted for 56% of the 1991 total; the chief contributors from abroad were Germany, Japan, France, China, India, and Canada. The growth of submissions has necessitated an increase from two to three in the median number of articles per year referred to referees. Referees increasingly use electronic mail (29% of responses) and faxes (20% of responses). Only 6.7% of articles were submitted by e-mail, but this was an increase of 138% over 1990. (APS News, August 1992.)