Re: Journal: Chaos, Solitons & Fractals

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<a78f7bef-95bb-4110-94a0-137533de4144@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"rlolders...@xxxxxxxxxxx" <rloldershaw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have noticed that recent issues of the journal Chaos, Solitons and
Fractals have the same author for more than 10% of the published
papers, and that author also happens to be the editor.

Is this physics journal being run like a vanity publishing forum? Or
is it a private journal?

Is this considered cricket?

I would welcome the thoughts of others on what appears to me to be a
very unusual situation.

Best,
Knecht


You're quite right. One issue I counted 9 (!) articles by the same
person. A quick search of INSPEC shows 46 articles by the same author
since early 2005 in that one journal. That's approximately 13
papers/year in the same journal. Almost all are high energy physics,
quantum field theory, or Lie group topics, not usually what is published
in that journal, although I stopped looking at it some years ago.

Yes, this is unusual. I am not an expert in the above fields, but as a
physicist who has published in the nonlinear/chaos literature for over
20 years I can tell you that 13 papers a year in any journal is unheard
of except for people with large research teams. I see only one name on
the papers I am talking about.

The journal is published by Elsevier Ltd. which publishes other physics
journals and is pretty good although not on the level of Physical
Review, Europhysics, and some others, IMHO.

--
-- Lou Pecora

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