Word has gone out that PRL (the Physical Review Letters) are tightening their publication standards. In a sense, this is long overdue: a journal once intended for quick turnaround of brief, legibly-written communications of broad interest is now publishing 80 papers a week, far more than anyone can follow. Unfortunately, the publishing landscape around PRL has changed, and I fear that this new strictness is being imposed largely out of a desire to compete with Science and the Nature journals, which... read more
