When Fermi submitted his paper on beta decay to the prestigious journal Nature, the journal's editor turned it down because " it contained speculations which were too remote from reality ".

" William Wetmore Story noted the journal's higher taste, writing that " it took some stand & appealled to a higher intellectual Standard than our puerile milk or watery namby-pamby Mags with which we are overrun.

The number of these peer reviewers ( or " referees ") varies according to each journal's editorial practice — typically, no fewer than two, though sometimes three or more, experts in the subject matter of the article produce reports upon the content, style, and other factors, which inform the editors ' publication decisions.

An academic journal's prestige is established over time, and can reflect many factors, some but not all of which are expressible quantitatively.

New articles have links to electronic versions hosted at the journal's webpage, but these are typically available only by subscription ( which most astronomy research facilities have ).

His essay, " The Passing of the Church: Forty Variations on an Unpopular Theme ," which was published in the peer-reviewed journal Church History, touched off a short but furious debate within the journal's pages in 1961.

Hussain, as the journal's editor, galvanised the Muslims of India by his editorials, which earned him wrath of the Congress Party as well as Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy and Governor General of the British Raj.

Several methods, not necessarily with nefarious intent, exist for a journal to cite articles in the same journal which will increase the journal's impact factor.

Coercive citation is a practice in which an editor forces an author to add spurious self-citations to an article before the journal will agree to publish it in order to inflate the journal's impact factor.

In 1963, he was sole author of a classic paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society in which he reported a method he called solid phase peptide synthesis, which is the fifth most cited paper in the journal's history.

The journal's website describes the publication's purpose as providing " a professional forum for presentations, criticism, and debate concerning topics which are for various reasons ignored or studied inadequately within mainstream science ", and describes the Journal as a " critical forum of rationality and observational evidence for the often strange claims at the fringes of science.

The journal's structure was loosely based on its contemporary British publication The Connoisseur, which was mainly aimed at collectors and had firm connections with the art trade.

The journal's title came from a poem that Hughes had written, which was a sinner's lament in the fashion of a Negro spiritual.

Over 250 accounts of the Flora of the British Isles have been published so far, all of which, from 1998 onwards, can be accessed free of charge via the journal's website.

As an illustration, following the publication in British Birds magazine of an account by Robin Chittenden of the finding of a Northern Parula on the Isles of Scilly in October 1983 ( Chittenden 1986 ), in which Chittenden wrote effusively about his excitement at this find, which was then only the fourth record for Britain, Rogers wrote to the British Birds letters page criticising both Chittenden for an article consisting of " 60 lines full of irrelevances ", and the journal's editors for " letting editorial standards slip ... perhaps in an attempt to widen journal's circulation " ( Rogers 1987 ).

In 2004, the American Economic Review began requiring " data and code sufficient to permit replication " of a paper's results, which is then posted on the journal's website.

In 1996 he was one of the journal's editors who published a paper by Alan Sokal professing to show connections between physics and post-modern theory, and which was later revealed by Sokal to be a hoax meant to expose the low academic standards of " post-modernism " ( see Sokal affair ).

For example, Albert Einstein's revolutionary " Annus Mirabilis " papers in the 1905 issue of Annalen der Physik were not peer-reviewed by anyone other than the journal's editor-in-chief, Max Planck ( the father of quantum theory ), and its co-editor, Wilhelm Wien.

His brother Robert Hunt, among others, also contributed to its columns ; his criticism earned the enmity of William Blake, who described the journal's office at Beaufort Buildings, Strand, London, as containing a " nest of villains ".

The journal's outlook was conservative and was often sympathetic to the growing imperialism of its time, and among other services to literature it published Rudyard Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads.

The first female editor of the journal was Priscilla Holmes ( 1953-1955, Volumes 67-68 ); the first woman to serve as the journal's president was Susan Estrich ( 1978 ), who later was active in Democratic Party politics and became the youngest woman to receive tenure at Harvard Law School ; its first minority president was Raj Marphatia ( 1987, Volume 101 ), who is now a partner at the Boston law firm of Ropes & Gray ; its first African-American president was Barack Obama ( 1991 ); its first openly gay president was Mitchell Reich ( 2011 ).

The journal's Executive Editor is Mark C. Henrie, its Managing Editor is Adam C. Koontz, and its Poetry Editor is David Middleton.

The Wallace Stevens Journal has been published by the Wallace Stevens Society since 1979, and its editor, John N. Serio, has collected some of the journal's essays in The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens.

" This formal designation followed the journal's initial discovery or ' finding ,' when final authentication of the manuscript journal as to being in Cooke's own hand was formidably established by its discoverer ; historian Lipack.

Jessica Mitford attributed the journal's influence to its use of undercover sources.

The journal's stated aims are " To act in the diffusion and scientific spreading and also the scene of the great cultural questions of our time, identifying trends and approaching proper subjects of the knowledge and the dynamics of its cultural, scientific and technological transformations .".

The word " NAAMLYST " or ' list of names ' had been boldly stamped on to the journal's leather cover.

The submission was an experiment to test the journal's intellectual rigor and, specifically, to investigate whether such a journal would " publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if it ( a ) sounded good and ( b ) flattered the editors ' ideological preconceptions.

The edition of this magazine was the most detailed analysis of Marxism then published in China, and achieved wide readership due to the journal's popularity.

" The New York Observer described the magazine's impact, " It soon became a much-talked-about phenomenon inside and outside academia "; as the Village Voice expressed it in November, 2000, on the journal's tenth anniversary, " Lingua Francas influence on nineties magazine culture has been so strong, it's sometimes hard to remember that it was unique in academia when it began.

21 Nov. 2009 < http :// dwardmac. pitzer. edu / anarchist_Archives / coldoffthepresses / luciferv2. html >.</ ref > This quote demonstrated the journal's fight to get women to see the light of how marriage truly was in the early 20th century.

When the magazine was renamed Awake !, the journal's editorship became anonymous.

It had the desired effect more than doubling the journal's circulation and encouraging the author who remarked that he was, " Three parts mad, and the fourth delirious, with perpetual rushing at Hard Times ".

Although it received some funds from Jews in New York, the journal's financial survival was precarious from the start.

The journal's first issue was published June 14, 1845, and was continuously printed, originally weekly, until October 1847, when it was relocated to New York City, still under the oversight of George Ripley and fellow Brook Farmer Charles Anderson Dana.

One of the journal's recurring themes was “ the commons ” ( a thing, institution or geographic space of, or having to do with, the community as a whole ), and the related “ tragedy of the commons ”.

While she was serving as associate editor of The American Review in 1936, she married that journal's owner and editor, Seward Collins.

For a long time, the journal's sole competitor was The Lancet, also based in the UK, but with increasing globalisation, BMJ has faced tough competition from other medical journals, particularly The New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association.

He was editor of the BMJ when the journal first moved to online publishing, and made the journal's archives freely available.

Under his editorship the journal's political stance was seen as centre-left.

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