Journals Definition and 117 Threads

After all, tenure is incredibly hard to get - and most people who strive for it don't earn it. So for those who couldn't get tenure (and a lot other interested people) - do they still read research journals for fun? (or say, read through graduate level textbooks in other fields for fun)...

Gentlemen and Lady, Assuming that Physical Review is the #1 journal to get published in, what would the top 10 be? Love, Plxmny

what does everyone think of this? although I've never had anything published nor even submitted anything i think i more or less agree with andrew odlyzko: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2006/10/02/tech-peer.html i think journals like those would enable crackpots to get their...

http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk It seems that *all* the Historical Royal Society Journals are now free for 2 months! Articles here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/14/royalsoc_archive_open/ :biggrin:

Im looking through what nuclear engineering/nuclear power journals I have online acess to through my university and I find these ones Annals of nuclear energy Journal of nuclear material Nuclear engineering and design NEA news Progress in nuclear energy Nuclear plant journal I want...

How do you go about having your paper published in a journal? How does copyright work? What is the minimum length of your paper? In what format do you have to sent in your paper? I don't know much about journals, I'd appreciate any other useful info, Thank you.

Hello Bio people, Could I ask a quick question... Physics has the Phys. Rev. series, is there an equivalent in Biology?

Are there any free journals online that don t require any subscriptions...? My taste is more on the physical science, and math, but anythings would do, because i am cheap.

Can you use LaTex in journals? Thanks

to publish it because i,m not a famous teacher,mathematician from a snob and pedant univesity of Usa of England...this is the way science improves..only by publishing works from famous mathematician..:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: o fcourse if i were Louis de Branges or Alain Connes or other...

Where can I find science journals online regarding Stem Cell Research??

Excuse the lay question, but how do peer review journals work these days, with the advent of the internet? I've seen people post arxiv articles; is that peer reviewed? Are there any worth subscribing to? Which ones are considered the most professional?

What is with magnetic units used in published papers? You can only compare ~1% of the published results. Some of the units I've seen emu, emu/g, Arb, a few don't even give units. How do these papers make it through the review process?

Has anyone else noticed bad formating in pdf files of APS journals? Whole words are subscripts and inline equations variables are subscripts. It's become very hard to follow papers. Is this a problem with adobe or the LaTex to pdf process?

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99995051" Rounding numbers seems to be a difficult task for some..

Why don't the journals give full texts to students ??

how it is calculated. what is the ranking of physics journals in 2003