<br>Naturwissenschaften is a reasonably high-quality<br>magazine, with a respectable impact factor. <br><br>As for your bet: The problem is that, as discussed already,<br>the decision of certain leading journals to ban papers on
<br>cold fusion seems to have been a particularly "subjective"<br>human decision, even more so than the average decision<br>within the (never of course totally "objective") scientific <br>community. So whether or not one of those journals publishes
<br>a paper on CF in the next year depends on the mood and<br>attitudinal changes of their editors, as much as on anything<br>else. But I figure a big enough breakthrough in CF would<br>overcome their bad attitudes toward CF. I am pretty confident
<br>a sufficiently large breakthrough will occur in the next 10-15 years,<br>but maybe not the next 1 year, given the fairly small amount<br>of attention and funding being devoted to CF...<br><br>-- Ben<br><br><br><br><div>
<span class="gmail_quote">On 5/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John K Clark</b> <<a href="mailto:jonkc@att.net">jonkc@att.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
"Damien Broderick" <<a href="mailto:thespike@satx.rr.com">thespike@satx.rr.com</a>><br><br>> 6th highest citation impact for 2000-2004<br><br>And did you see who was #8? The Royal Society Of New Zealand! And in 2003
<br>Scientific American was #5 and Naturwissenschaften was #7. Scientific<br>American?!<br><br>I don't know what sort of weed the guy who dreamed up that list was smoking<br>but I'd like to get some. But if I'm wrong and Naturwissenschaften really is
<br>a wonderful journal then I just don't understand why nobody will take my<br>bet. It's easy money.<br><br> John K Clark<br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list
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