Journals Definition and 117 Threads

I am a co-author of a manuscript recently submitted to PRL. We received comments from 2 reviewers: 1 of them suggested revisions, while the other recommended the paper be rejected. The comments from the second reviewer were vague, as he completely misunderstood the paper. The editor rejected our...

Hi, all! I'm currently studying the 3 families of leptons. 1) Are there any accepted theories about why the lepton masses are what they are? 2) What are the best journals to read about this kind of thing? I'm aware of the Koide formula, but that seems to be an empirical formula, not a theory...

Hi! Suppose that someone had solved an old but open problem in the great area of mathematics and physics, for instance, dynamical systtems, algebraic geometry and differential equations. Based on your broad experience, what are the best scientific journals to submit such a discovery? In...

The famous Maldacena's paper, the first paper on what is today called AdS/CFT correspondence, is published in two journals. It's not two parts of one work, it's one complete paper published twice. I presume that there is some interesting story behind it, but I don't know it. Does anybody know...

I am increasingly anxious since my first paper was submitted to journals and it has been rejected three times directly by editors. Although my advisor thinks it is an interesting work and keeps submitting it to high-quality journals, I am not very confident in myself. I am always worried that...

What are they, those that discuss textbook materials rather than learning outcome in particular?

This can be a general thread that others may discuss their experiences. I have a question to which I couldn't readily find an answer: What does it mean when the editor(in-chief, if it makes a difference) sends you papers to review often, like once a month? The editor even sends that person two...

Some of you here may know from one of my earlier profile posts that my father has been diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic lung adenocarcinoma. He is receiving chemotherapy, the exact drugs being Pemetrexed, Carboplatin and bevacizumab. After his first chemo cycle, he started having hiccups, but...

How can I find physics journal's near by me?

Hi folks, I am searching free journals of maths and physics that are written to teach, so you can learn even if you have no idea of the content (previously I mean). Does it exist something like that?

I have been reading statistics for a while (I am a physics major but also a stat-enthusiast), and one of the topics that drew my attention was the misrepresentation, or to be precise, misinterpretation of the data. This came up while reading about Simpson's paradox and the likes. When I see...

Dear all, I just had a paper rejected (my first) by Physical Review Letters due to it being "not of interest to a general audience". I got an offer to have it published in Physical Review B instead. I was a bit disappointed by that, as my supervisors were confident that it would go through...

One obvious disadvantage of Open Access Journals is that you have to pay for it. However, paying would have been worth it if it were to give me something I can cite on my CV. And this brings me to the following question: would citing open access journals on my CV help me at all? In particular, I...

Hello, I request inputs about selecting a journal to submit an article in High Energy Physics. This is in formal theory as opposed to Particle Phenomenology. The article is more than ten pages so PRL is not an option. How would you choose between JHEP and Physical Review D? Which is rated higher...

Which journal is the best in the field? Which is better between American Journal of Physics and Physical Review Physics Education Research?

I had to suffer through a lot of pseudo-science to earn my master's in education. I am suffering through more of it now while I "study" for my administration license. In fact, because anachronistic theories such as VAK (visual, auditory, kinesthetic learners) get floated around so much in the...

is there a list for maths/physics related academic journals aimed at education/teaching

Hi, Could you please let me know of some good physics and mathematics academic journals for undergrads? I'm look for a journal(s) whose approach is focused on helping someone understand a certain topic and providing a little bit intuition. I'd prefer something like DeepDyve. I understand that...

Is there an online database (with free access) where you can look at peer reviewed articles and research? I want to start researching some ideas and I'm looking for a database where research has been published. In psychology there's a database called ebsco that let's you look at these articles...

What does it mean when a journal constantly changes managing editors for a revised submission? A journal initially handed down a minor revision for a paper. I became a reviewer after the revision was complete, and saw many shortcomings or mistakes, so I recommended a major revision. It's been a...

I have more than an amateur interest in experimental particle physics. I regularly follow journals like Physical Review and Nature to find new discoveries. Fortunately, Phys. Rev. Accelerators and Beams is open access; so is the Journal of HEP and the papers from collaborations like CERN...

Suppose I wanted to publish a physics paper. It costs nothing to publish to arxiv. Why (setting aside the obvious advantage offered by peer review and the mistakes it can catch) would I publish in a pay-journal if I have something that is free? Sorry if this is an ignorant question. I am trying...

Hi folks. For those in Optical Engineering, detector work or the Optical-Mechanical Engineering field I was curious which society do you use for conferences and research work. Which journals do you tend to look at for research literature. I see SPIE and IEEE are the prominent ones, any...

I am having a discussion with a friend who advocates "ozone therapy": re-injection of your blood after being enriched with ozone, done by a doctor. Since I am very skeptical of this fad (all I can see is that ozone destroys double bonds in carbon chains, which does not seem like a good thing--...

A physicist I know submitted his article to Physics Review Letters, and the article was rejected. In the rejection letter, PRL sent him the two reviews upon which the judgment was based. OK, the normal reaction would be to do a bit of appropriate revising and try another journal, maybe one...

A physicist I know is looking to publish a paper on a special case of the Navier-Stokes equation; he submitted it to Physics Review Letters, who rejected it for two reasons: (1) it was too specialized, so not suitable for the broad readership that PRL targets, and (2) the physicist had made used...

I just came across this website and thought it might be of interest to the PF participants. https://beallslist.weebly.com/ The following describes what it is all about...

Hi I'm a HS student and wish to become a physicist. In order to be acquainted with academic literature as well as latest physics researches, please suggest me some good physics journals or magazines that I should read!

Only for papers in INSPIRE-HEP. Vertical axis are citations. Downloads measured during the six-month period from september 2015 to Feb 2016 (afaik no more recent data is available, is it?) excluding duplicate IPs of the same paper. stats "corr.txt" using 1:2 Linear Model: y = 1.782 x + 674.3...

Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription journals are doomed, data analyst suggests http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/sci-hub-s-cache-pirated-papers-so-big-subscription-journals-are-doomed-data-analyst

New York Times article on open access journals, good and bad, and an academic sting operation with interesting results. ------------------------------------------------------ A Scholarly Sting Operation Shines a Light on ‘Predatory’ Journals By GINA KOLATA MARCH 22, 2017 The applicant’s nom de...

I'd really like to read free journals about tech/engineering, how it works etc. Please recommend one if you know.

I have done a fundamental research about relativity but i can't find right journal or conference. can anyone help me?

I plan to publish submit a piece of publication about research on tritium produciton and discharge in PWR. It should be classified into nuclear engineering or radiation protection? Could you help to recommend some magzines of SCI or EI? It's better if the magzine has a fast period of reviewing...

This summer I did some research and had positive results but my part contributed to a small portion of the big grant. My PI told me we could submit to some "side" journals to get publications but I am not sure if this is necessary because the admission committees will see my poster I created...

I'm looking for journals/publications for last year's discovery of a star devoured by a black hole https://hub.jhu.edu/2015/11/26/black-hole-eats-a-star/ But I don't know where to look, the incident/object is not given a specific name in the article, and I need more detailed information about...

I am looking for a small journal to submit my recent paper. I hope it can 1. have printed version 2. free of publication fee (therefore all IEEE journals are out) 3. listed on SCI It does not matter which country does it belong to. Nor do I mind whether is it small or not. Has anyone any...

What is the best physics journal for condensed matter physics ? And what is the best journal for all branchs of physics that keeps you on update ? Thanks

I've gotten a couple of requests to referee papers for the European Journal of Physics, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Journal_of_Physics , which is a journal that publishes pedagogical papers (not original physics research). Both of these were for pedagogy papers having to do with...

Hi guys, I'm a computer science student who has a lot of interest in Maths. Whenever I ask a problem to this Maths teacher of mine, he always asks if I have any application for it or am just asking from the mathematical point of view. Usually, it's the latter. Then he tells me that I should...

Hello, as a software engineer I am used to having industry specific trade journals from ACM that discuss Operating systems, genetic algorithms, neural nets, etc. ... Are there any equivalent ones for physics that covers fusion plasma and it's topics such as electromagnetism, superconductivity...

I am going to be a senior this year and I am considering on studying physics. I want to know what universities to apply to. I found a web page that shows universities ranked by scientific journals. A couple response would be nice. Link to web page-...

I will be working as an assistant for the first time in my life soon. I wanted to ask your opinions on teaching people to learn from physics journals. When I started doing real research, I think the first problem I came across was that reading journals is hard, and learning from them is even...

Choppy submitted a new PF Insights post Guide to Publishing in Peer Reviewed Journals Continue reading the Original PF Insights Post.

This is by no means a complete list. It is constantly revised. This initial list is compliments of @ZapperZ. Please contact a mentor if you'd like a journal added. Links to each journal will be added in the future. Nature Science Physical Review Letters (PRL) Review of Modern Physics Physical...

I seemingly (probably because I am to stupid to) can't find any good journals on QM and physics that one can by every month (or year?) in the UK. I am not talking about the commercial astronomy or science "fun" magazines but serius QM,mathematics or physics with formuals and equations. Any...

I'm looking for sites with historical journal articles -- ideally in English, but if there's none available, I can settle for the original. Specifically, I'm looking for stuff by (in no particular order, and certainly not exclusively) e.g. Heisenberg, Pauli, Dirac, Schrodinger, Feynman...

According to this article in the Washington Post, a peer-reviewed journal is retracting dozens of papers en mass because a 'peer-review ring' which used fake e-mail addresses and reviewers using multiple aliases gave these papers friendly reviews...

I am a undergraduate student now and I have joined in a project in my college. I was assigned a job to simulate the deformation of an elastic membrane given the boundary and the exerted forces on it. It seems to be a homework problem and quite fundamental, but I really have spent much time on it...

I am very interested to know which peer-reviewed journals are considered seriously by mainstream scientists for articles on SR/GR (even if they are not restricted to SR/GR only). There are a lot of 'peer-reviewed' journals out there which publish on SR/GR, but which are the well regarded ones...