jornal for speculative research, a new idea

From: Alejandro (arivero_at_posta.unizar.es)
Date: 11/14/04 

Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 13:07:53 +0000 (UTC)

I noticed that for some time Kluwer held a journal for
speculations in science,
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0155-7785/contents
It was discontinued in 1998. It is clear that peer-review does
not mix with such line of publications...

Now, evolving in the new ArXiv policy, I have though: what about a
"credit policy" for authors, based in standard publications. For
instance publication in PhysRev, Phys Rev letters etc could score
"credits" for the authors, perhaps proportionally to the impact factor
of the journal, and thet would be free either to use directly such
credits as "pages" in the speculative journal, or to donate their
credits to other authors.

What do you think? Should you read such journal, or ask to the library
to subscribe to it?

As an extra possibility, the credit donation mechanism would be
anonymous for anonymous authors, and explicit for real authors. So one
can cover its identity by "doning" to, say, N. Bourbaki. Or to back up
writting by other people even if you are not directly involved.

If you think about, it is a kind of peer-reviewed unrefeered journal
:-)

Alejandro Rivero