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description: 'PhySH (Physics Subject Headings) is a physics classification scheme
  developed by the American Physical Society to organize journals, meetings, and other
  content by topic. The development of PhySH is motivated by the lack of a fully open,
  high quality classification scheme for physics. It is intended initially to meet
  the specific goals of the APS for our journal, meeting, and other content. A longer
  term goal is to make it available for use by the broader community. (...) Right
  now, the main use of PhySH is to classify manuscripts within the APS peer-review
  process and, ultimately, published journal articles. The assigned concepts will
  be used for ensuring articles are routed to the most appropriate handling editor
  who is knowledgeable in that area. They also help editors in finding similar articles
  previously submitted and in finding suitable referees.


  As one might expect with something so new, the refinement of PhySH is still very
  much underway. The facets and disciplines have been identified and almost 3,000
  concepts have been added to PhySH through an iterative process that is still ongoing.
  Many APS journal editors are involved in this process, primarily by lending their
  expertise in the various subfields in physics. The assignment of concepts to the
  various facets can be rather subjective. Thus, we expect to make many adjustments
  to PhySH as we receive feedback from the community (especially authors using PhySH
  to classify their submissions) and as we incorporate PhySH into the APS journal
  websites. As we iteratively refine PhySH over the coming months, the rate of new
  concept additions, concept reassignments within facets, and new relationships among
  concepts should abate significantly.'
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- physics
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