Physics Essays

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.

Physics Essays
DisciplinePhysics
LanguageEnglish
Edited byEmilio Panarella
Publication details
History1988–present
Publisher
Physics Essays Publication
FrequencyQuarterly
0.6 (2022)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Phys. Essays
Indexing
CODENPHESEM
ISSN0836-1398 (print)
2371-2236 (web)
LCCNcn88039057
OCLC no.643949195
Links

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:

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
  1. Sepetyi, Dmytro (2018). "Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness: No Evidence for Idealism". Filosofska Dumka (4): 95–105.
  2. King, L. A. (1992). "Page charges" (PDF). Nature. 358 (6387): 534. Bibcode:1992Natur.358..534K. doi:10.1038/358534b0. S2CID 12907853.
  3. "Publishing Matters" (PDF). AIP Matters. American Institute of Physics. 2008-10-06. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
  4. "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.
  5. "Price List 2011" (PDF). AIP Publishing. p. 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-11-27.
  6. "Price List 2012" (PDF). AIP Publishing. 2012-05-04. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-05-04. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
  7. Jha, Alok (2005-11-04). "Fuel's paradise? Power source that turns physics on its head". the Guardian. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
  8. 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.
  9. "Indian scientist challenges Einstein's theory". Hindustan Times. 2004-09-21. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  10. "Science Tribune". The Tribune, Chandigarh, India. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  11. Cameron, Bill (2017-03-25). "Amateur physicist makes bold claim". Pocono Record. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
  12. "CAS Source Index". Chemical Abstracts Service. American Chemical Society. Retrieved 2023-06-27.
  13. "Physics Essays". MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals. University of Barcelona. Retrieved 2023-06-27.
  14. "Web of Science Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Clarivate. Retrieved 2023-06-27.
  15. "Physics Essays". inspirehep.net. INSPIRE. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
  16. "JOURNAL CHANGE: PHYSICS ESSAYS: Dropped". IP & Science - Thomson Reuters. 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-09-28. Retrieved 2015-09-28.
  17. "Physics Essays". 2013 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2014.
  18. "Source details: Physics Essays". Scopus Preview. Elsevier. Retrieved 2023-06-27.
  19. "Physics Essays". SCImago Journal Rank. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
  20. "Physics Essays". 2021 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2022.
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