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- From: gilligan@bldrdoc.gov (Jonathan Gilligan 303-497-3861)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: scientific literature
- Message-ID: <4535@dove.nist.gov>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 23:42:30 GMT
- References: <1992Jul26.192348.19076@wpi.WPI.EDU>
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- In article <1992Jul26.192348.19076@wpi.WPI.EDU> phillies@wpi.WPI.EDU (George D. Phillies) writes:
- |>[... Sci. Am. is not part of the scientific literature because
- |> it doesn't satisfy the following definition ...]
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- |>Under the orthodox definition of a scientific journal, as one whose
- |>articles are documented in a scholarly way and whose pages are
- |>generally open to debate, Scientific American (no matter its
- |>extensive merits as a refined match to Popular Mechanics) is not a
- |>scientific journal, and publication in its (undoubtedly culturally
- |>valuable) pages should not be described as publication in the
- |>scientific literature.
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- Then is Reviews of Modern Physics not part of the scientific
- literature because debates are not published there?
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- ---Jon
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