The Mathematica Journal is no longer accepting submissions
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The Mathematica Journal is no longer accepting submissions
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Re: The Mathematica Journal is no longer accepting submissions
#2When I first saw this, I thought "Maybe they are cruising arXiv for new papers?"
They aren't. BUT, I would love to see something like this happen for all science journals:
1. You post a paper to arXiv (or equivalent for your field).
2. Preliminary review by whoever is interested (and is qualified to publish on arXiv themselves)
3. Interested editors of various journals contact you with a list of proposed in-depth reviewers (or just accept based on quality of existing reviews).
4. Address reviewer questions (to the extent you think valuable)
5. Post update to arXiv.
6. Editor decides to publish or pass (return to step 3).
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#3I remember looking through past issues of the Mathematica journal in the Reed College library around 2000. I was always impressed with the graphics that people made with Mathematica. The journal made we want to learn Mathematica. Mathematica introduced me to functional programming. Thanks for the great run Mathematica Journal!
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#4When I first saw this, I thought "Maybe they are cruising arXiv for new papers?" They aren't. BUT, I would love to see something like this happen for all science journals: 1. You post a paper to arXiv (or equivalent for your field). 2. Preliminary review by whoever is interested (and is qualified to publish on arXiv themselves) 3. Interested editors of various journals contact you with a list of proposed in-depth rev…
My dream would be arxiv hosting a reddit-style upvote/downvote discussion thread for every paper. I've seen this work beautifully on some science subreddits, as well as on Scot Aaranson and Terence Tao's blogs. It can really help flesh out problems/questions, generate intelligent discussion, and even lead to cooperation between participants on further research. One requirement for it to work is strong moderation to keep the discussion focused.
Re: The Mathematica Journal is no longer accepting submissions
#5When I first saw this, I thought "Maybe they are cruising arXiv for new papers?" They aren't. BUT, I would love to see something like this happen for all science journals: 1. You post a paper to arXiv (or equivalent for your field). 2. Preliminary review by whoever is interested (and is qualified to publish on arXiv themselves) 3. Interested editors of various journals contact you with a list of proposed in-depth rev…
This is actually kind of appealing, in my experience "shopping" for the right journal for an article can be kind of a pain when you're in a smaller field. You'd likely get a ton of spam from that large tranche of fake journals that just exist to collect excessive publication fees, though. I already get lots of that unsolicited :(.
Re: The Mathematica Journal is no longer accepting submissions
#6When I first saw this, I thought "Maybe they are cruising arXiv for new papers?" They aren't. BUT, I would love to see something like this happen for all science journals: 1. You post a paper to arXiv (or equivalent for your field). 2. Preliminary review by whoever is interested (and is qualified to publish on arXiv themselves) 3. Interested editors of various journals contact you with a list of proposed in-depth rev…
My dream would be arxiv hosting a reddit-style upvote/downvote discussion thread for every paper. I've seen this work beautifully on some science subreddits, as well as on Scot Aaranson and Terence Tao's blogs. It can really help flesh out problems/questions, generate intelligent discussion, and even lead to cooperation between participants on further research. One requirement for it to work is strong moderation to k…
Sounds like a job for a dedicated Lemmy/kbin instance
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
My dream would be arxiv hosting a reddit-style upvote/downvote discussion thread for every paper. I've seen this work beautifully on some science subreddits, as well as on Scot Aaranson and Terence Tao's blogs. It can really help flesh out problems/questions, generate intelligent discussion, and even lead to cooperation between participants on further research. One requirement for it to work is strong moderation to k…
Sounds like a job for a dedicated Lemmy/kbin instance
Maybe, but you really want all the discussion easily discoverable and in a central authoritative place to encourage experts in the field to find and join the conversation.
Re: The Mathematica Journal is no longer accepting submissions
#8When I first saw this, I thought "Maybe they are cruising arXiv for new papers?" They aren't. BUT, I would love to see something like this happen for all science journals: 1. You post a paper to arXiv (or equivalent for your field). 2. Preliminary review by whoever is interested (and is qualified to publish on arXiv themselves) 3. Interested editors of various journals contact you with a list of proposed in-depth rev…
This kind of happens in the life sciences, PLoS has editors that look through biorxiv and invite submissions: https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/jo...
eLife also has started its own pipeline for invited preprints: https://elifesciences.org/about/peer-review
It's not without controversy. Especially the eLife decision to not have an accept/reject decision is controversial (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00831-6). Personally, I think it's a good decision, there is no place for 'old-style' journals in the way science is developing.
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#9Surprising: according to https://hn.algolia.com/ Mathematica-journal and "Mathematica-journal" was only cited twice here, and never on submissions. I feel like we missed something.
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#10Haven't used Mathematica for ages (since uni basically) and it waas good to browse the articles a bit. Given how the profile seems to basically be to showcase cool Mathematica use cases, the move to the Wolfram Community does make sense.
While checking past issues on the web, it's a bummer that they didn't work out how to typeset the actual Mathematica commands in the articles as text rather than the current image format. This prevents copy-pasting code, which can spend dozens of lines, making it harder to try them out. That's at least not the case in the Wolfram Comunity pages - I'm guessing those are just notebooks at their core, so much easier to do.