Number 227 (Story #3), May 22, 1995 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein PAPERS SUBMITTED TO PHYSICAL REVIEW BY FOREIGN AUTHORS now exceed those from U.S. authors by a ratio of two to one. A task force of The American Physical Society, studying the growth of its journals, finds that the increase of submissions (currently about 8% annually) to Physical Review and Physical Review Letters in recent years has been mostly from foreign authors. This reflects what the task force chairman Eugen Merzbacher of the University of North Carolina calls "the globalization of physics research." Correspondingly, the number of manuscripts published has gone up. But since production and distribution charges generally go up along with the number of pages published, the APS feels that future growth will have to be held in check, such as by lowering the article acceptance rates. (APS News, May 1995.)