Researchers can upload maths and physics papers that have not (yet) been published in journals.
His physics papers and books, however, are literary masterpieces of the genre owing to their absolute perfection in form with regard to mathematical expressions as well as words.
Now, physics papers often get "pre-printed" on a website (www.arxiv.org) before they have gone through the grinding process of review and revision.
The researchers plan to post their results to the arXiv, an online repository of physics papers, on December 17th, with submissions to a peer-reviewed journal following shortly thereafter.Around a quarter of the universe is thought to be made up of dark matter, which, as the name suggests, neither gives off nor reflects light.
The database would be similar to the Los Alamos archive, an online repository of physics papers that has been running for the past decade.BioMed Central, a British open-access publisher, has also increased its charges from $500 to as much as $1,700 per article.
So I raise a glass to the winners of the Ig Nobels, in all their weird and wonderful detail, just as I do my anonymous friend whose name gets lost in the seemingly never-ending list of authors on particle physics papers and the many, many, many scientists I walk past on my university campus every day but rarely have a clue what they are up to.
A good editor can quickly tell the wheat from the chaff in a pile of physics papers.
This is evidenced by the fact that the detector physicists are part of the author lists of the final physics papers and certainly by the fact that Charpak got the Nobel Prize in physics for developing a detector.
The Astrophysics Data System (ADS), developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASAA), is an online database of over eight million astronomy and physics papers from both peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed sources.
Excluding such physics papers from calculations considerably reduces In for some institutions (Table 1).
Similarly, mega-authored physics papers would typically give credit for <1 citation to each author; collaborator-profile most-cited physicists may then be re-classified as being among the least-cited physicists.
