Troika vs Four Kings
Many academic journals are classified into one category and nicknamed because of their similarity in status, content and publishing houses. There are threesome and foursome.
Central nervous system of troika;
This is probably the most famous periodical combination in academic circles. Those who engage in scientific research, especially biology, are familiar with it: Cell, Nature and Science. The origin of this name is difficult to verify. One of the earliest sources I saw on the Internet was that Yan Ning said that in the neurobiology class that year, the English abbreviation of the central nervous system happened to be CNS(central? Nervous system), and triggered the association with the names of the three major journals 1. Of course, many people read the letters C, N and S in different order. NCS, SNC, SCN and so on are actually saying the same thing.
Domestic CNS of Troika:
Nowadays, domestic periodicals are getting bigger and bigger. Among them, the following three books can be described as strong dreams: Cell Research, National Science Review and Science Bulletin (English version). Careful netizens found that the first letters of these three journals are connected together, isn't it CNS? So it is called CNS2 made in China. Although there is a certain gap with the influence of international CNS for the time being, I believe these young domestic journals will have a bright future.
Three comprehensive periodicals of the troika: PNAS, Natural Communication and Scientific Progress.
In earlier years, this work was PNAS' personal exhibition, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 10, Nature first launched Nature Communications, which was a great success and successfully led the trend of high-level open access journals. Five years later, Science also published Science Progress, known as the scientific version of Nature Communication, and gradually became a competitor with the other two magazines. The influence of these three comprehensive periodicals is still quite great, from the first division of Chinese Academy of Sciences to the first division in lightning speed!
Four kings series
It seems that four magazines say more. For example, the "big four" in mathematics: mathematical yearbook, the invention of Mathematica E and Acta Mathematica, and the journal of American Mathematical Society.
There are also so-called "Big Four" in the field of chemistry: Angewandte Chemie, JACS Journal of American Chemical Society, Chemical Science and Natural Chemistry.
Four Comprehensive Journals of Biology: Current? Biology, BMC biology, Elife, cell report
There are also four major publishing houses: Elsevier, springer/Nature, Willie and Taylor.
Of course, the four most influential journals are PLoS One, Scientific Reports, Oncotarget and Medicine. These journals are nicknamed "God Journals" because of their open access, huge manuscripts (especially those published by domestic scholars) and uneven grades of articles. In fact, there are many high-quality articles in "Four Gods". In particular, some scholars may not care so much about magazines, or get tired of the tedious submission process of changing magazines frequently, and finally "condescend" to these "gods". Every serious paper in these magazines embodies the countless efforts of researchers. The most important thing should be the article itself, but in today's scientific community, the journals that publish articles carry too many things that it may not.
Speaking of sub-publications, who is the sub-publication?
There are more and more magazines now. Many magazines have launched various sub-magazines. The most famous is the nature series. So, what is a sub-release? Taking the series Nature as an example, the journal titled Nature can become a sub-journal. According to this standard, natural communication should also be included, but it seems to have a lower status than other sub-journals. In this regard, Nature Group has a roughly equivalent English description: natural brand periodicals. At present, the number of nature sub-magazines has reached 46 (including 18 nature review series) 3.
The scale of the sub-issue of Nature is still expanding, covering more and more fields. Children's shoes for food majors are blessed, because according to reliable sources, the new sub-magazine "Natural Food" will meet with you in the next two years. So should the editor-in-chief of the magazine be the chief? Editor changed to chef? Editor? At this rate, maybe a book Nature jiaozi will be published in the near future. At that time, I had to apply for the position of editor-in-chief for Jiaozi. At that time, the magazine's home page should look like this:
With the increasing number of sub-periodicals, some authors refer to periodicals that are not sub-periodicals as sub-periodicals. The most famous is the scientific report mentioned above. Although I am now in the ranks of the "Four Gods", when 20 1 1 was first published, SR was the target of many articles in the nature group. I have heard of many feats rejected by Nature and its sub-journals, and I think many articles are of high standard. Maybe I don't know the situation, or maybe I don't want to go to the magazine. Some authors refer to SR as a natural sub-publication. Some people even write natural science reports directly in their own published scientific reports. Ok, according to this logic, the name of the following magazine should be changed to this:
Natural genetics->; ? Natural natural genetics
Scientific progress->; Scientific progress science
PLOS Biology->; PLOS PLOS biology
The sharpest is Cell Stem Cell, a well-known journal in the field of stem Cells under cell, because it has to be changed to.
Cell stem cells? Doesn't that sound awkward?
Don't judge heroes by their titles.
The title of the magazine is not random, and it follows the principle of first come, first served. Magazines founded first, such as Nature and Science, are often named first. However, some rising stars have to avoid these names and find another way, but this does not mean that they are the so-called "water journals". For example, the following:
Elife: Electronic life? The name really looks like a popular science magazine. This is a high-level magazine, which is jointly created by a group of bosses from Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute (HHMI), Max Planck Institute in Germany and Wellcome Trust Company in Britain.
IScience: I wonder how many children's shoes will be transliterated as love science like me? This magazine is by no means an English version of We Love Science. As the latest excellent journal of Cell, the I in its name stands for importance.
PLOS Series: PLOS is the full name of the Public Library of Science. Public Science Library? In fact, the name is to emphasize its open access, which is free for everyone.
There are many similar situations. I can only say that the titles of these magazines are either too omitted or too modest.
Since there is a magazine named "Niu Magazine" like "Water Magazine", there will also be "exaggerated" magazines. For example, the "Frontier" series from Switzerland is called "Frontier", but the frontier articles in its magazine are likely to be different from the above-mentioned "popular science books", not to mention CNS. Of course, the most famous magazine is Nature and Science: as long as you publish a paper in this magazine, you can say that you have published an article in Nature and Science.
This article is purely fun, so don't take it seriously. Finally, I wish all children's shoes can send many papers in their favorite magazines on 19!
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1.？ Yan Ning, why send CNS? ? 20 12,?
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2.？ Xu Xu, Science Bulletin achieved a breakthrough in intermediate frequency, and CNS in China rose in an all-round way. 20 17,
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