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'''''Physics Essays''''' is a quarterly journal supposedly<ref name=dumka/> covering [[Theoretical physics|theoretical]] and [[experimental physics]]. It was established in 1988 and the [[editor-in-chief]] is Emilio Panarella, who is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the New York Academy of Sciences. The establishment of such an advanced physics journal was endorsed, among others, by one of its first Editorial Board members and Nobel Prize Gerhard Herzberg, who wrote a Foreword in which he states that ".....The new journal promises also to give greater freedom to authors in discussing critical and unsettled points in the foundations of physics, a policy that relieves some of the rigidity of the present reviewing system adopted by many journals.....", and added "....It is my pleasure and privilege to wish the new journal all possible success. May it contribute to the better understanding of the foundations and development of physics and inspire an appreciation for the value of unrestrained scientific inquiry...". The "Foreword" by Gerhard Herzberg (Phys. Essays, Volume 1, No. 1 p. 3, Year 1988) is available online free of charge in the home page of the journal. Another "Editorial - Fifteen Years Later", where the statement is reported by the Editor of a conventional journal that they reject the top 10 percent of the submissions (i.e., the best articles), is also available online free of charge in the home page of the journal (Volume 16, No. 1, p. 3, Year 2003).
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The journal has a reputation for being a "free forum where extravagant views on physics (in particular, those involving [[parapsychology]]) are welcome".<ref name=dumka>{{cite journal |last1=Sepetyi |first1=Dmytro |title=Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness: No Evidence for Idealism |journal=Filosofska Dumka |date=2018 |issue=4 |pages=95–105 |url=https://dumka.philosophy.ua/index.php/fd/article/view/430 |language=en }}</ref> The journal has been accused of [[Article processing charge|charging authors for publication]] without disclosing the fees up front.<ref name=pagecharges>{{cite journal | last=King | first=L. A. | title=Page charges |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/358534a0.pdf | journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]] | volume=358 | issue=6387 | year=1992 | doi=10.1038/358534b0 | pages=534| bibcode=1992Natur.358..534K | s2cid= 12907853}}</ref>
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Revision as of 05:13, 13 October 2023
Discipline | Physics |
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Language | English |
Edited by | Emilio Panarella |
Publication details | |
History | 1988–present |
Publisher | Physics Essays Publication |
Frequency | Quarterly |
0.6 (2022) | |
Standard abbreviations | |
ISO 4 | Phys. Essays |
Indexing | |
CODEN | PHESEM |
ISSN | 0836-1398 (print) 2371-2236 (web) |
LCCN | cn88039057 |
OCLC no. | 643949195 |
Links | |
Physics Essays is a quarterly journal supposedly[1] covering theoretical and experimental physics. It was established in 1988 and the editor-in-chief is Emilio Panarella, who is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the New York Academy of Sciences. The establishment of such an advanced physics journal was endorsed, among others, by one of its first Editorial Board members and Nobel Prize Gerhard Herzberg, who wrote a Foreword in which he states that ".....The new journal promises also to give greater freedom to authors in discussing critical and unsettled points in the foundations of physics, a policy that relieves some of the rigidity of the present reviewing system adopted by many journals.....", and added "....It is my pleasure and privilege to wish the new journal all possible success. May it contribute to the better understanding of the foundations and development of physics and inspire an appreciation for the value of unrestrained scientific inquiry...". The "Foreword" by Gerhard Herzberg (Phys. Essays, Volume 1, No. 1 p. 3, Year 1988) is available online free of charge in the home page of the journal. Another "Editorial - Fifteen Years Later", where the statement is reported by the Editor of a conventional journal that they reject the top 10 percent of the submissions (i.e., the best articles), is also available online free of charge in the home page of the journal (Volume 16, No. 1, p. 3, Year 2003).
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The journal has a reputation for being a "free forum where extravagant views on physics (in particular, those involving parapsychology) are welcome".[1] The journal has been accused of charging authors for publication without disclosing the fees up front.[2]
In the 1990s, the journal was published by University of Toronto Press.[2] Beginning in 2009, and for some period of time, the journal was affiliated with the American Institute of Physics, which managed subscriptions.[3][4][5][6]
In 2003, the journal published a paper describing Randell Mills' hydrino theory, which is both at odds with quantum mechanics and widely rejected by physicists.[7][8] In 2004, the journal published an author from Himachal Pradesh who claimed to prove that the usual mathematical expression of mass-energy equivalence was not valid in general, a claim he said was being ignored by the wider scientific community.[9][10] In 2017, the journal published an article from an amateur physicist who claimed to redefine the elementary charge and eliminate the fine structure constant, directly in contradiction to mainstream physics.[11]
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is indexed and abstracted in the following bibliographic databases:
- Chemical Abstracts Service[12]
- EBSCO databases[13]
- Emerging Sources Citation Index[14]
- INSPIRE-HEP[15]
The journal was indexed in Current Contents/Physical, Chemical, and Earth Sciences and the Science Citation Index Expanded until it was dropped in 2015.[16] Its last impact factor, according to the 2014 Journal Citation Reports, was 0.245 for 2013.[17] Scopus similarly dropped its coverage in 2017, at the time ranking 174 out of 205 in the category "General Physics and Astronomy".[18] For most recent years, until it was de-listed by Scopus in 2017, it was ranked by SCImago Journal Rank as a fourth-quartile journal under the category "Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)".[19] Presently, it is included in the Emerging Sources Citation Index[14] with a 2022 impact factor of 0.6.[20]
References
- ^ a b Sepetyi, Dmytro (2018). "Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness: No Evidence for Idealism". Filosofska Dumka (4): 95–105.
- ^ a b King, L. A. (1992). "Page charges" (PDF). Nature. 358 (6387): 534. Bibcode:1992Natur.358..534K. doi:10.1038/358534b0. S2CID 12907853.
- ^ "Publishing Matters" (PDF). AIP Matters. American Institute of Physics. 2008-10-06. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
- ^ "Price List 2009" (PDF). American Institute of Physics. 2013-08-06. p. 13. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-06. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
- ^ "Price List 2011" (PDF). AIP Publishing. p. 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-11-27.
- ^ "Price List 2012" (PDF). AIP Publishing. 2012-05-04. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-05-04. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
- ^ Jha, Alok (2005-11-04). "Fuel's paradise? Power source that turns physics on its head". the Guardian. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
- ^ Rathke, A (2005-05-19). "A critical analysis of the hydrino model". New Journal of Physics. 7: 127. arXiv:quant-ph/0505150. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/7/1/127.
- ^ "Indian scientist challenges Einstein's theory". Hindustan Times. 2004-09-21. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
- ^ "Science Tribune". The Tribune, Chandigarh, India. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
- ^ Cameron, Bill (2017-03-25). "Amateur physicist makes bold claim". Pocono Record. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
- ^ "CAS Source Index". Chemical Abstracts Service. American Chemical Society. Retrieved 2023-06-27.
- ^ "Physics Essays". MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals. University of Barcelona. Retrieved 2023-06-27.
- ^ a b "Web of Science Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Clarivate. Retrieved 2023-06-27.
- ^ "Physics Essays". inspirehep.net. INSPIRE. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
- ^ "JOURNAL CHANGE: PHYSICS ESSAYS: Dropped". IP & Science - Thomson Reuters. 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-09-28. Retrieved 2015-09-28.
- ^ "Physics Essays". 2013 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2014.
- ^ "Source details: Physics Essays". Scopus Preview. Elsevier. Retrieved 2023-06-27.
- ^ "Physics Essays". SCImago Journal Rank. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
- ^ "Physics Essays". 2021 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2022.