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 (2023) | |
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.
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 at odds with quantum mechanics and widely rejected by physicists. [7] [8] In 2004, the journal published a paper claiming proof that the usual mathematical expression of mass-energy equivalence was not valid in general, a claim the author 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]
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. [15] Its last impact factor, according to the 2014 Journal Citation Reports , was 0.245 for 2013. [16] Scopus similarly dropped its coverage in 2017. [17] As of 2022, it is included in the Emerging Sources Citation Index [14] with a 2023 impact factor of 0.6. [18]
In 2024, the Norwegian Scientific Index downgraded the journal from a level-1 journal to level 0, meaning that publication there no longer counts in the official academic career system or towards public funding of research institutions. [19]
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