Highlighting Impact and the Impact of Highlighting: PRB Editors' Suggestions

With worldwide R&D investment topping $1.5 trillion annually [1] and constantly increasing technical capabilities, computing power, and means of scientific interactions, global research output is growing rapidly (in fact, exponentially [2]) in numbers and scope. Just over the last 15 years, the number of scientific articles published annually in physics journals [3] rose from approximately 78,000 to 133,000. APS journals, in particular, now publish almost 18,000 articles per year, of which approximately 5,000 appear in PRB.