Journals Definition and 117 Threads

Hey everyone, I'm interested in people's opinions about Impact Factors and how useful they are in ranking scientific journals. For extra information I've made an infographic about the top physics journals as measured by Thomson Reuters in their journal citation reports and it's accessible here...

Can anybody suggest any books, journals, or webs on antigravity? Trying to do some research on it but its really hard to find useful information.

Hello, I was wondering if anyone can recommend any good articles or journals with valid and good velocity data for flow from an impinging jet on a flat surface with an approximate Reynolds number of around 75,000 to 90,000? I have looked and seem to have lots of data for heat coefficients but...

I will, however, point out that PLOS ONE rejected the paper (yay!) and that some Elsevier journals accepted it (jab!) http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full

I believe that by accident I have developed a new atomic model that will replace the Bohr model. I am not a scientist or mathematician yet I want to try to present the model to the scientific community. What is the best way to do so? If it is through a journal please recommend journals that...

Hello My association with a University is coming to an end and with it ends my free access to a panoply of research journals. Can anyone suggest how someone without University affiliations (and who is unable to pay the fee for private use!) could go about accessing at least some journals/...

Homework Statement Hey guys, I'm working on an undergraduate engineering project which requires us to read a paper and replicate certain graphs using matlab. While reading the journal I hit a slump where one of the graphs stated that the data points were on a different paper. I...

I'm dead, finished, there's no hope for me. My dreams to become a tenured professor are ruined unless I can find a way to read academic journals again. I was reading academic journals using my alum account with my university but they recently took those privileges away for unknown reasons. If...

I graduated last year with my MSc in Physics from Imperial, and I'm presently undergoing a teacher training course, to teach high school physics. I loved studying physics, and especially doing research, so would like to keep in touch with it for personal interest while teaching/future work. I...

Do there exist any "recreational physics" journals? Such as one that publishes simple, but interesting, applications of classical mechanics?

I have to do a chemistry report and have two peer reviewed scientific journals related to my topic as references. My question is if there is some sort of database that has this information readily available?

I have raised this question, and got one interesting answer: 'should obama get money for every newspaper story about him?' However, I don't think that's a good analogy. I would personally think writing a book and getting money for it is more analogous to having a paper that you fully wrote on...

Recently, I came across two excellent journals oriented (mainly) towards Math undergrads. These are The American Mathematically Monthly and Mathematics magazine. The articles published in these journals present new prespective, new proofs or historical notes on topics in the undergraduate Math...

Like any free articles online?

Let me start out and say I'm cheap so I would prefer not to buy an iPad or a Samsung Galaxy tablet. I'm looking for an eReader that does okay on reading the two-column scientific journal format. I don't care about any other features, battery life, etc. I've read people complain about all...

I am in the lower 6th and I have always done independent mathematics research and learning. I have come up with a topic that I would like to write about in the form of a formal research paper and would love to have the opportunity to publish it in a math journal. Which journals are easier...

I want to start reading some science journals (even though I might not understand it completely:bugeye:) I was thinking of reading Nature. I checked out their website and they had a general magazine and they had a separate one for just Nature physics. Which one shall I get?

I've been studying chemistry for years now but I still don't know how all this stuff works. I barely even know where to start. We write lab reports for every experiment we do in college and I assume that in the real world, researchers compile these lab reports whenever they do a real experiment...

Interesting article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-murdoch-socialist It does have a point. Why do academic publishing companies run a monopoly on scientific information when much of it is funded by tax payer dollars?

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Hi - I'm looking for a decent physics journal, more technical than, say, New Scientist but not necessarily really high-level stuff. Right now I'm looking at physicstoday.org, physics.aps.org and http://iopscience.iop.org/0034-4885", are these any good? I'm interested in any recommendations you...

I believe I have proven a famous open problem in mathematics, and no, it is not the Riemann Zeta hypothesis although that would be nice. Anyway, I want to know how I can submit my proof online and if anyone can give me pointers on preparing my paper. Thanks.

I'm curious: which journals usually have cycling research posted to them? If the term is too much of a catch-all, then I'm mostly interested in the physiology of the high endurance portion (as opposed to sprinting).

Does anyone have the Latex Model for Physical Riview Letters or Physical Riview B? If anyone have, can you send me the model to me? I really need it. Thank you very much!

I have a general question about submitting an article--a scientific article, obviously--to journals for publication*: Can you submit your article to several journals, and then withdraw the submission from the journals once a particular journal forwards the paper for refereeing or agrees to...

I'm in a very strange situation. I haven proven something to be the case that was very unexpected, and I am having a hard time getting people to take me seriously, especially people at physics journals. It is actually something objectively true, like a mathematical proof, but I keep getting...

Hello everyone, I wanted some advice as to what journals I could follow based on my interests. I am currently studying Biotechnology (my interest), but I am interested as well in cell signalling (particularly as it applies to activation/deactivation of genes), medicine (therapeutics...

I've written 2 papers one was more or less an expository on a difficult topic in group theory and the other one I just finished writing is a paper that introduces the basic concepts in elementary measure theory and then gives an original result from it. I submitted the first one to a journal but...

I am a new graduate student, and I was hoping someone might recommend some journals to start reading. I have interests in solid state and quantum computation, but I am also somewhat undecided and would like a breadth of information to help me choose a path.

[FONT="Verdana"]I am a student from a third-world country. How can I access the APS and other online journals? In my country most students don't have a .edu email address. Any idea where I can access such kind of valuable knowledge? Also, I have seen that most of the reasearch papers are locked...

The APS has released a press statement today that all the APS Journals will be made available for free at US Public libraries. http://publish.aps.org/public-access-announcement This gives you access to the Physical Review Letters, the Physical Review A,B,C,D,E, and Review of Modern...

im currently trying to acquaint myself with the current state of knowledge in physics, problem is i can't understand the physics published in journals, now i wanted to know , is it against the rules to ask stuff about the published materials? where do the questions go to, here or homework help?

I am currently doing a PG research project to fabricate nanoparticles.I am just starting my research and i was wondering if anyone would help me obtain research papers from Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids. I would like to see Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids Volume 304, Issues 1-3, June...

I asked this in the mathematics section, but they told me it was probably best to ask it in a different PF section. So I'm interested in getting a hold of peer-review journal articles' "original data sets". I'm curious because I want to play around with data for fun on some statistics software...

I'm curious because I want to play around with data for fun on some statistics software I'm teaching myself, plus I want to create equations to describe/predict things that I find interesting in peer-review journals. How often do they let others see their original data sets?

is there a journal that is written specially for the students in the aeronautical and the the astronautical fields ? i heard something like that but unfortionatly i'v found any thing related. i'm looking for a journal in hard copy form

Cost free physics journals for authors?? if i m not wrong Journals like Physics review a,b,c,d charge from authors to publish papers. But is there good journals which don't charge from authors? What about Journal of High energy physics and European physics journal? Do they also charge? :rolleyes:

I apologize for this simple question, but maybe some of you dedicates medical experts can give me a quick answer to this? I think this is the right section. What scientific journals, among international top-3 or so would you think a researcher would rather get published in these fields? -...

I'm quite new. Can anyone give me a link or sense of physics and applied mathematics journals and their rankings. I tried the search function but it all seems scattered. Google too is not helping much. Thanks y'all.

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this question, but here goes. What are the top three math journals? I want to purchase a few but seeing as they can be a bit expensive (I am a starving undergrad :cry:) I want to get the most for my money. I just reached the point where I...

I was wondering what are some good science journals (by good, I mean reputable). I hear that Science is a good one. Is that the name of it? Just Science? And is something I can subscribe to like a magazine? I basically just want to keep up with science and technology but don't want to...

I've been reading a few journal entries on Arxiv.org, and one of the ones that continues to show up in astrophysics and astronomy journals is i[SIZE="1"]775 and/or z[SIZE="1"]850. There are several others, a few of which I have been able to find definitions for. Would anyone know what these...

I looking into maybe a subscription of Nature or Science...but they are like $200 a year...Any cheaper way to get them? i am only a poor student :(

I thought it might be good to start a thread on journals that educators could use as resources to learn more about current ideas in education research. Well, okay, I thought mostly someone else might be able to offer some pointers toward well-respected journals in the field. We probably all...

Has anyone heard of the journals published by this group, Scientific Journals International (SJI)? Their website is http://www.scientificjournals.org/ Are these journals generally respected in the scientific community?

I study mathematics, physics and computer science at university ((interested mostly in theoretical aspects)), and I thought of reading some scientific journals during the summer, to actually see some non-textbook science and know something more than what I've been taught in classes and textbooks...

I was wondering if anyone has ever spotted a mistake in any math journal before. Of course, I don't mean typographical errors, but conceptual errors like a flaw in a proof that had slipped by all the editors and referees. Since these works are all original, they have not been written off...

Hello, I'm an undergraduate student who has finished an REU program over the summer. the project involved using a program (written by some other physicist) to model a vacuum system of a small accelerator. my mentor mentioned the possibility of publishing a report to a undergraduate journal...

I am really new at this ( I guess you can tell :blushing:) so this is probably a stupid question but where can we access authentic scientific journals? I know that books are considered second sources, and the paper journals publish are suppose to be the first source of information...:shy:..

I'm looking for journals which are specifically for undergraduate papers. So far, I've found the Canadian Undergraduate Research Journal (cupj.ca), but I'm in the United States and doubt they accept out-of-country papers. I've also found The Online Journal of Undergraduate Research in Physics...