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Which Journals accept conceptual / qualitative papers?
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Are there any (respected) journals that accept conceptual / qualitative papers in physics / astrophysics? If I can present qualitative evidence for a model, but haven't figured out how to fully quantify it due to a lack of math skills, and yet I can make qualitative predictions that can be tested.......... over here something should go up..........over there, something should go down, and so on with a long list of correct 50/50 predictions, can that be publishable? ie, are there journals where this sort of paper would be welcomed? Thanks, Ross |
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Which Journals accept conceptual / qualitative papers?
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writes: Are there any (respected) journals that accept conceptual / qualitative papers in physics / astrophysics? There are many phony "journals" that will publish anything for a price. They are made to look respectable, but nobody with any sense pays any attention to them. The standard requirement for publishing is "significant new results or theories." In general, to show novelty, you need to demonstrate how your new work differs from existing work. That takes a thorough understanding of existing work as well as a clear presentation of the new work. Papers along the lines of "Here's a clever idea, now somebody else work out the details..." face a high barrier unless they include some clear reason to believe the clever idea might be useful. In article , "Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)" writes: Presumably these are "retrodictions". While logically just as good, in practice real predictions (theory first, confirmation later) are deemed better. Phillip and I have disagreed on this before. I don't think time order is important, but the number of free parameters in the theory definitely is. -- Help keep our newsgroup healthy; please don't feed the trolls. Steve Willner Phone 617-495-7123 Cambridge, MA 02138 USA |
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