''Progress in Physics'' is an open-access academic journal, publishing papers in theoretical and

experimental physics Experimental physics is the category of disciplines and sub-disciplines in the field of physics that are concerned with the observation of physical phenomena and experiments. Methods vary from discipline to discipline, from simple experiments and ...

, including related themes from

mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

. The journal was founded by Dmitri Rabounski,

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, and Larissa Borissova in 2005, and is published quarterly. Rabounski is the editor-in-chief, while Smarandache and Borissova act as associate editors. It was included on Beall's List of potentially- predatory journals at the time that list was last updated. Since 2008, the Norwegian Scientific Index has rated it a "Level 0" journal, indicating that publication there does not count for official academic career or public funding purposes.

Aims and reviewing process

The journal aims to promote fair and non-commercialized science, as stated in its ''Declaration of Academic Freedom'': The journal describes itself as

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

.Progress in Physics Home Page
/ref> The review procedure is specified as follows: The referees of the papers published are not listed, although anonymity of referees is specifically criticized in "Article 8: Freedom to publish scientific results" of the ''Declaration of Academic Freedom''. This document harshly criticizes the current peer-review system using the words "censorship", "alleged expert referees", "blacklisting", and "bribes". The journal has published papers by several authors, who, along with some of the editors, claim to have been blacklisted by the Cornell University arXiv, as proponents of fringe scientific theories.Case history
of contributor to journal

Indexing and abstracting

The journal is or has been indexed and abstracted in the following bibliographic databases: It was indexed in the (paywalled) aggregator

Open J-Gate Open J-Gate was a free database of open access journals, launched in February 2006, and hosted by Informatics Ltd. of India. Informatics started metadata aggregation from open access journals as part of the development of J-Gate. Open J-Gate cla ...

and in the website

Scientific Commons ScientificCommons was a project of the University of St. Gallen ''Institute for Media and Communications Management''. The major aim of the project was to develop the world’s largest archive of scientific knowledge with fulltexts freely accessi ...

References and notes

External links

''Progress in Physics'' website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Progress In Physics Physics journals Open access journals Academic journals established in 2005 Quarterly journals