What is Journal: Definition and 165 Discussions

An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and discussion of research. They are usually peer-reviewed or refereed. Content typically takes the form of articles presenting original research, review articles, or book reviews. The purpose of an academic journal, according to Henry Oldenburg (the first editor of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society), is to give researchers a venue to "impart their knowledge to one another, and contribute what they can to the Grand design of improving natural knowledge, and perfecting all Philosophical Arts, and Sciences."The term academic journal applies to scholarly publications in all fields; this article discusses the aspects common to all academic field journals. Scientific journals and journals of the quantitative social sciences vary in form and function from journals of the humanities and qualitative social sciences; their specific aspects are separately discussed.
The first academic journal was Journal des sçavans (January 1665), followed soon after by Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (March 1665), and Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences (1666). The first fully peer-reviewed journal was Medical Essays and Observations (1733).

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  1. BWV

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    Hi. My paper has just been accepted by PRD. Can I still submit this manuscript to arXiv? Will this action violate any copyright? Thanks.
  3. A

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  4. K

    Physics Science Journal Style: 3 Columns Format

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    Can Mathematical Symbols Be Extracted from Scanned Journal Pages?

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  7. bhobba

    COVID Excellent Story On Breakthrough Cases From Wall St Journal

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  8. M

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  9. E

    Other Your thoughts about "International Journal of Theoretical Physics"

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  10. kyphysics

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  11. R

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  13. J

    Quantum Journal on hardware used to build quantum computers?

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  14. J

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  18. Sorcerer

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    For the first time in my lime I am not able to find home page for well-known and respected western periodical. I am looking for the paper titled «Définition covariante des équilibres thermodynamiques» by J. M. Souriau published in Supp. Nuovo Cimento, 1, I , 4 (1966) pp. 203-216 (given the fact...
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  22. P

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  24. A

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  26. W

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  29. M

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  35. K

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  47. M

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  49. T

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  50. BrainMan

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