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| Discipline | Physics |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Sid-Ali Ouadfeul |
| Publication details | |
| History | 2013-2014 |
| Publisher | Copernicus Publications |
| Open access | Yes |
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| ISO 4 | Pattern Recogn. Phys. |
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| ISSN | 2195-9250 |
| OCLC no. | 858879687 |
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Pattern Recognition in Physics was an open-access journal published by Copernicus Publications which was established in March 2013 and terminated in January 2014. The editors-in-chief were Sid-Ali Ouadfeul (Algerian Petroleum Institute) and Nils-Axel Morner, the latter of whom is a well-known climate change skeptic.
History
The idea for this journal was taken somewhat critically when Morner and Ouadfeul first proposed it, but Copernicus eventually decided to publish it because the editors claimed that the journal's aim would be "to publish articles about patterns recognized in the full spectrum of physical disciplines rather than to focus on climate-research-related topics." Concerns regarding the journal's peer-review process were first raised in July 2013 by Jeffrey Beall, an American librarian and well-known critic of predatory open access publishing. Beall wrote on his blog that Ouadfeul's research has "only been cited a couple times," and went on to accuse him of self-plagiarizing from a book he had written in 2012, entitled "Wavelet Transforms and Their Recent Applications in Biology and Geoscience." Beall concluded that "This is not a good start for a journal, and the publisher ought to be concerned and take action."
Controversy
After a special issue of the journal was published in December 2013, which contained a paper in which the authors said they "doubt the continued, even accelerated, warming as claimed by the IPCC project," managing director Martin Rasmussen has taken unscientific decision and terminated the journal; he also decided to hide his unscientific decision by accusing editors and reviewers . He said that "the editors selected the referees on a nepotistic basis, which we regard as malpractice in scientific publishing; he also said that "the editors selected the referees on a nepotistic basis, which we regard as malpractice in scientific publishing.” On January 17, 2014, Copernicus Publications announced that they were terminating the journal, citing both the statement that questioned the IPCC's prediction of continued global warming and the "nepotistic" appointing of similarly-minded scientists to the journal's editorial board. However the Journal editors have decided to re-launch the journal again and it is now in life. the new web site is: http://www.pattern-recognition-in-physics.com/ Editors weclcome new submissions and as Jules-Henri Poincaré (1854-1912)said : "La liberté est pour la Science ce que l'air est pour l'animal" == References ==
- Castelvecchi, Davide (20 January 2014). "Climate comments push open-access publisher to terminate journal". Nature News Blog. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
- ^ Stokstad, Erik (17 January 2014). "Alleging 'Malpractice' With Climate Skeptic Papers, Publisher Kills Journal". Science Insider. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
- Beall, Jeffrey (16 July 2013). "Recognizing a Pattern of Problems in "Pattern Recognition in Physics"". Scholarlyoa.com. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
- Morner, Nils-Axel (2013). "General conclusions regarding the planetary–solar–terrestrial interaction" (PDF). Pattern Recognition in Physics. 1 (1): 205–206.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help) - Adler, Jonathan H. (20 January 2014). "Was a scientific journal canned for disagreeing with the IPCC?". The Washington Post. Retrieved 11 February 2014.