A prolific writer, he founded the science periodical Nature in 1869 and edited it until a few months before his death.
On its tenth anniversary the Chinese Room argument was featured in the general science periodical Scientific American.
In 1884, he became a founding member of the American Society for Psychical Research ASPRR) and, in 1894 and 1895, a president of the British Society for Psychical Research (SPR), and he reviewed and defended the work of the SPR in psychology and science periodicals like Mind, the Psychological Review, Nature and Science.
He wrote for popular periodicals like Popular Science and Cosmopolitan and literary journals like American Monthly Review of Reviews.
Furthermore, the search strategy used ensured the inclusion of studies employing qualitative research methods published in both biomedical and social science periodicals.
The characteristic attributes of modern scientific papers – including their deliberately dry and objective style and the vital process of peer review – took a long time to emerge but the innovation of periodical publishing in the sciences was an instant success.
Lu, the publisher, volunteered ideas: "We're thinking about having him do some sort of science-education periodical with topics like 'What did dinosaurs look like?' or 'How do people catch cold?' " It was hard to picture.
Fifty years ago this week, a 10-page spread in Life magazine, then the nation's most widely read periodical, introduced America to the science of baseball statistics.
The news accounts were widely believed, due in part to certain truthful elements—Herschel was a noted British astronomer, and the article referenced The London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, an actual periodical.
We searched PubMed, ClinicalTrials, the Cochrane Library (Issue 10, 2012), the Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure Databases (CNKI), the Chinese Science and Technology Periodical Database (VIP), the Chinese Biomedical Database web (SinoMed), and the Wanfang Database, from their inception to December , 2012
