Broad-Spectrum Journals

One classification is of special importance there is a small minority of materials journals that can be described as broad-spectrum, compared with a much larger number which are specialised to a greater or lesser degree. Probably the first broad-... 

Another journal. Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), was started by another commercial publisher at about the same time as JMS. This had only one editor, a metallurgist, from the start, and so in spite of its stated objectives, it remained almost wholly metallurgical for many years. When eventually it became broader under a new editor, it was split into several independent journals with distinct editorial boards, each of them relatively broad-spectrum - in particular, one devoted to functional materials, and another to biomimetics. The main MSE remained in being, and has remained largely metallurgical after 35 years. 

The MRS archival journal. Journal of Materials Research, already mentioned, is another broad-spectrum journal that has worked well, except for its limited polymer content. Here again, the principle of multiple editorship seems to have been an important component of success. 

An interesting, broad-spectrum journal founded in 1997 by Roy is Materials Research Innovations., one of its objectives is to bypass normal methods of editorial scrutiny submitting authors who have published a sufficient number of papers in other, peer-reviewed, journals are assumed, in effect, to have reviewed themselves. 

Arts, J., Angibaud, P., Marien, A., Floren, W, Janssens, B., King, P. et al. (2007) R306465 is a novel potent inhibitor of class I HDACs with broad-spectrum antitumoral activity against solid and haematological malignancies. British Journal of Cancer, 97, 1344—1353. 

To ensure coverage of a broad spectrum of journals containing both original and review articles, bibliography databases, such as CAB abstracts, BIDS ISI and Embase, Medline and Current Contents Agriculture and Food Citation index, were searched. Terms used for all database searches were kept simple to limit the risk of missing any original publications (Table 4.5). Initially, each flavonoid subclass was entered and then cross-searched with the... 

Aqil, F. and Ahmad, I. (2003) Broad-spectrum antibacterial and antifungal properties of certain traditionally used Indian medicinal plants. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 19(6), 653-657. 

The third and final source of literature data is MMCC Results. This newsletter covers a broad spectrum of journals, but only a few articles presenting computational chemistry results may be abstracted from each issue of a journal. Articles are apparently selected on the basis of the likely interests of the newsletter s subscribers. 

An effort has been made to include a range of problems reflecting the broad spectrum of industries in which chemical engineers are employed. It must be recognized, however, that reliable price data for bulk quantities of specialty compounds may be hard to obtain. Many of the problems are therefore based on products and feeds for which the prices are listed in ICIS Chemical Pricing or Oil and Gas Journal. 

Johnson WO, Kollman GE, Swithenbank C, and Yih RY (1978) RH 6201 (Blazer) A new broad spectrum herbicide for postemergence use in soybeans. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 26(1) 285-286. 

Journal of Controlled Release. Amsterdam Elsevier Science Publishers. ISSN 0168-3659. Publishes broad spectrum of papers dealing with all aspects of controlled release and delivery, including gene delivery, tissue engineering, and diagnostic agents. 

Carlson, L.A., 2005. Nicotinic acid The broad-spectrum Upid drug. A 50th anniversary review. Journal of Internal Medicine. 258 94—114. 

Scientific journals devoted to particular categories of materials, or procedures, become ever more numerous. Some are national, others continental or international in scope some are highly specific, others somewhere between broad and narrow spectrum some publish in English or another language only, others accept papers in several languages. All I can usefully do here is to cite a few examples. 

An example of a journal hovering between broad and narrow spectrum is Journal of Alloys and Compounds, subtitled an interdiciplinary journal of materials science and solid-state chemistry and physics. One which is more restrictively focused is Journal of Nuclear Materials (which I edited for its first 25 years). Ceramics has a range of journals, of which the most substantial is Journal of the American Ceramic Society. Ceramics International is an example of an international journal in the field, while Journal of the European Ceramic Society is a rather unusual instance of a periodical with a continental remit. More specialised journals include Solid State Ionics Diffusion and Reactions, and a new Journal of Electroceramics, started in 1997. 

Figure 4 A 172 MHz broad-band scan (lower trace) and high-resolution spectrum (upper trace) of phenol and water in helium at a stagnation pressure of 100 kPa. Three lines can be recognized in the low-resolution spectrum a doublet consisting of a strong and a weak component of the 6oe

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