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Questions tagged [journals]

Online or printed academic periodicals in specific subjects to which the research papers in various topics are sent by the authors and are published after being reviewed and accepted by the editorial board.

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research. Content typically takes the form of articles presenting original research, review articles, and book reviews.

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Why do academic journals usually have continuous page numbering?

In a normal magazines, page numbers restart counting from 1 at every issue. Most academic journals, however, count continuously, perhaps per year or per quarter, leading to articles covering pages 13199–13255 or similar folly. Why is this so? When…
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When/whether to do pre-submission inquiry at high impact journals

I'm curious to hear whether there is general guidance on when and whether to submit a pre-submission inquiry to a high impact journal (field: biology). Our goal is to identify a journal that will send our paper out for review. I understand…
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Publishing in the lower quartile journals: better than nothing?

Having a realistic option of publishing a minor study in a 4th quartile journal, is this better than nothing? The articles of many, but not all, authors are kind of pretentious and unremarkable (not being cited nowhere), but not plagiarized, or…
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What is the difference between a journal whose name ends with "Letters" versus "Reviews"?

What is the difference between a journal named "Letters" & "Reviews" in the end? e.g. journal named - "Neural Processing Letters", "Machine Learning Reviews". What is the core difference between these two types of journal? Thanks.
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Does anybody receive printed copies of new journal issues nowadays?

Everybody I have met in academia uses recently-published journals entirely through electronic means. They may print out articles for their own use, but they will not receive printed subscriptions. Does anybody receive modern journals in printed form…
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How to find the best journals or articles to read

When someone is just starting out, they can be overwhelmed with the number of journal articles published each month. Reading everything published seems impossible due to time constraints. After someone has enough experience, they naturally watch…
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Publisher (online, refereed journal) is not publishing the volume containing my paper - what are my options?

In 2010, I had a paper accepted for online publication by a refereed journal. I was given a URL for my article, and told which volume would contain the article. The journal has never published that volume. Repeated inquiries (via emails) with the…
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Where can I donate print academic journals?

Like many people, I have a lot of print journals that I got over time with association memberships. However, I never use them, given online access at my institution. Does anyone know where I can donate them? I've looked at a lot of university…
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Difference between a Virtual issue and a special issue?

Can someone explain me the significance of Virtual issues, the difference between Virtual and Special issues? Also, under what conditions does a journal propose for a Virtual issue, does it have any impact on the Impact factor of the journal?
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Do references count towards the word limit for Science Magazine?

Quoting from Science Magazine's General Information for Authors, Reports (up to ~2500 words including references, notes and captions or ~3 printed pages) ... This seems to suggest that references are to be counted towards the word limit. But the…
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Anyone dealt with "KEI Journals"? What about the journal "Quarterly Physics Review"?

I received an email from Dr. Naonori Ko wondering if I'd be interested in writing up a review article for a journal called "Quarterly Physics Review". I'm skeptical of new journals, but I also want to support a competitive journal publication…
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Is there an equivalent of the journals Science or Nature for engineering?

The journals Science and Nature seem like they are basically the flagship journals for most of the hard sciences, such as biology, physics, or chemistry. Is there an equivalent high-caliber journal for general engineering? For example, if somebody…
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Reproducible Studies?

I'm not an academic, but I notice a trend in the top journals where replication studies aren't taken with the same glamour as original studies. Considering mountains of recent research show the majority of studies in many fields may in fact be…
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How do I find a journal's type (e.g. SCI, EI)?

I'm filling out a form with information about my publications, and one of the fields is "Type of Journal." I'm not sure what this means, except that SCI and EI are possible values. I'm guessing the former refers to Science Citation Index, but I…
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How to find publications from a particular institution in a journal?

Suppose now I am interested in University A and a Journal B. I want to know how many people from University A published a paper in Journal B, and what are these papers. How to do this?
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