Requesting recommendations for specialized journal for....

[nomadreid]

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 MS Word's Word Count feature, which counts 1 formula=1 word, whereas PRL has a more restrictive equivalence that put the calculation over the top for PRL's article limit. The second reason is not so problematic, but he does not know where to submit the article for a more specialized target audience. Any suggestions or recommendations?

 

[Orodruin]

My usual take on inquiries like this:
If he does not already know what the main journals in the field are, how does he know that what he has done is original and relevant? The only way to know that is to follow the field closely and that would entail keeping up with the current literature.

 

[nomadreid]

Well said, Orodruin. In this case, looking at his references, except for the ones that quote papers written or co-authored by himself in Russian journals, the most recent reference is from 2015. A problem is that he has worked and published all his life in Russia, and recently emigrated to the West -- from his references it is clear that he is familiar with a few of the Western journals, such as The Physical Review journals, Phys.Fluids, J. Fluid Mechanics, and PhysicaD, but he has never published in these, and is wondering where to start. He started with PRL, but that was a bad choice for the reasons mentioned. He then tried Phys. Fluids, but he made some mistake in submission (something about submitting his earlier draft which he had also put on ArXiv and not updated, I'm not sure), and was , in his words, rejected without the right to appeal. So, next?