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Pattern Recognition in Physics was an open-access journal originally published by Copernicus Publications which was established in March 2013 and terminated in January 2014. The...

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Pattern Recognition in Physics was an open-access journal originally published by Copernicus Publications which was established in March 2013 and terminated in January 2014. The editors-in-chief were Sid-Ali Ouadfeul (Algerian Petroleum Institute) and Nils-Axel Mörner.[1] Copernicus ceased its publication due to concerns over the publication's method of peer review, which it calls "nepotistic reviewing and malpractice" facilitating views contradicting the scientific consensus on climate change.

History

Copernicus agreed to publish the journal because the editors claimed that its aim would be "to publish articles about patterns recognized in the full spectrum of physical disciplines rather than to focus on climate-research-related topics."[2] Concerns regarding the journal's peer-review process were first raised in July 2013 by Jeffrey Beall, an American librarian and critic of predatory open access publishing. Beall wrote on his blog that Mörner did not appear to be a specialist in pattern recognition and that Ouadfeul's research had "only been cited a couple times." He also noted that two of the journal's first five articles were authored by Ouadfeul himself, and concluded that "This is not a good start for a journal, and the publisher ought to be concerned and take action."[3]

After a special issue of the journal was published in December 2013, which contained a paper in which the authors said they "doubt the continued, even accelerated, warming as claimed by the IPCC project,"[4] Copernicus managing director Martin Rasmussen expressed concern regarding this journal. He also said that "the editors selected the referees on a nepotistic basis, which we regard as malpractice in scientific publishing."[2] On January 17, 2014, Copernicus Publications announced that they were terminating the journal, citing both the statement that questioned the IPCC's prediction of continued global warming and the "nepotistic" appointing of similarly minded scientists to the journal's editorial board.[5]

References

  1. ↑Castelvecchi, Davide (20 January 2014). "Climate comments push open-access publisher to terminate journal". Nature News Blog. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
  2. 1 2 Stokstad, Erik (17 de enero de 2014). "Alegando 'mala praxis' con artículos escépticos sobre el clima, la editorial cancela la revista" . Science Insider . Recuperado el 14 de septiembre de 2021 .
  3. ↑ Beall, Jeffrey (16 de julio de 2013). "Reconociendo un patrón de problemas en "Reconocimiento de patrones en física"" . Scholarlyoa.com . Archivado del original el 22 de febrero de 2014 . Consultado el 11 de febrero de 2014 .
  4. ↑ Mörner, Nils-Axel (diciembre de 2013). "Conclusiones generales sobre la interacción planeta-solar-terrestre" (PDF) . Pattern Recognition in Physics . 1 (1): 205– 206. Bibcode : 2013PRP.....1..205M . doi : 10.5194/prp-1-205-2013 .
  5. ↑ Adler, Jonathan H. (20 de enero de 2014). "¿Fue clausurada una revista científica por discrepar con el IPCC?" . The Washington Post . Recuperado el 11 de febrero de 2014 .