Physics Essays

Short description: Fringe science journal

Physics Essays

|Subject |Discipline}}| Physics
Language| English
Edited by| Emilio Panarella
Publication details
History| 1988–present
Publisher|

Physics Essays Publication

Frequency| Quarterly

Impact factor

| 0.6 (2022)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4 (alt) * Bluebook (alt1 * alt2)
NLM (alt) * MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4| Phys. Essays
Indexing
CODEN * JSTOR (alt) * LCCN (alt)
MIAR * NLM (alt) * Scopus
CODEN| PHESEM
ISSN| 0836-1398 (print)
2371-2236 (web)

LCCN| cn88039057
OCLC no.| 643949195
Links

* Journal homepage
* Online archive

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 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

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sepetyi, Dmytro (2018). "Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness: No Evidence for Idealism" (in en). Filosofska Dumka (4): 95–105. https://dumka.philosophy.ua/index.php/fd/article/view/430.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 King, L. A. (1992). "Page charges". Nature 358 (6387): 534. doi:10.1038/358534b0. Bibcode: 1992Natur.358..534K. https://www.nature.com/articles/358534a0.pdf.
3. ↑ "Publishing Matters". AIP Matters. American Institute of Physics. 2008-10-06. https://www.aip.org/sites/default/files/aipcorp/aipmatters/2008-10-06.pdf.
4. ↑ "Price List 2009". American Institute of Physics. 2013-08-06. p. 13. http://www.aip.org/journal_catalog/AIP2009NonmemberRateFixed.pdf.
5. ↑ "Price List 2011". AIP Publishing. p. 11. http://journals.aip.org/aip_2011_prices.pdf.
6. ↑ "Price List 2012". AIP Publishing. 2012-05-04. p. 10. http://www.aip.org/journal_catalog/AIP2012NonmemberRateFixed.pdf.
7. ↑ Jha, Alok (2005-11-04). "Fuel's paradise? Power source that turns physics on its head". http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2005/nov/04/energy.science.
8. ↑ Rathke, A (2005-05-19). "A critical analysis of the hydrino model". New Journal of Physics 7: 127. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/7/1/127.
9. ↑ "Indian scientist challenges Einstein's theory". 2004-09-21. https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/indian-scientist-challenges-einstein-s-theory/story-Tvs0UcDwaJJwogYGfddt7L.html.
10. ↑ "Science Tribune". https://m.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040924/science.htm#2.
11. ↑ Cameron, Bill (2017-03-25). "Amateur physicist makes bold claim". https://www.poconorecord.com/story/news/local/2017/03/25/amateur-physicist-makes-bold-claim/21790885007/.
12. ↑ "CAS Source Index". Chemical Abstracts Service. American Chemical Society. https://cassi.cas.org/publication.jsp?P=eCQtRPJo9AQyz133K_ll3zLPXfcr-WXf8uQ4KH8XRxg1hhprj09ypjLPXfcr-WXfMs9d9yv5Zd_72xFCYgjEkzLPXfcr-WXfMs9d9yv5Zd8XSzQC2jbL5Px68egFxYIS.
13. ↑ "Physics Essays". MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals. University of Barcelona. http://miar.ub.edu/issn/0836-1398.
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Web of Science Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Clarivate. http://mjl.clarivate.com/.
15. ↑ "Physics Essays". INSPIRE. https://inspirehep.net/journals/1214222.
16. ↑ "JOURNAL CHANGE: PHYSICS ESSAYS: Dropped". IP & Science - Thomson Reuters. 2015. http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlchange.cgi?Full=PHYSICS+ESSAYS. 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. https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/29201.
19. ↑ "Physics Essays". SCImago Journal Rank. https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=29201&tip=sid.
20. ↑ "Physics Essays". 2021 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2022.

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