Scientific publication

The scientific term publication gathers several types of communications that the Enquiring S scientists do their work in direction of a public of specialists, and having undergone a form of examination of the rigor of the scientific Méthode employed for this work, such as for example the examination by a independent Reading panel.

One can distinguish them according to their support from publication:

the scientific magazines at reading panel;
reports of scientific Congress at reading panel;
of the collective works gathering of the articles of review or research around a given topic, coordinated by one or more researchers called editors;
of the Monograph S on a research topic.

The publications which enter one of the executives above only are generally considered for the evaluation of the researchers and the bibliometric studies , often, the reports of congress are not entered because of their very variable selectivity. The indicator used is the Facteur of impact.

Are normally excluded from the category “scientific publication”,

the reviews without reading panel, for example the reviews of topicality of the learned societies;
reports of conferences without reading panel;
the Monograph S of teaching.

The case of the pre-publications is more complex: they are articles in general intended to be formally published, in a re-examined for example, but that their authors choose to place immediately at the disposal of the Scientific community, on a site Internet for example. They are thus not entered as publications within the framework of the bibliometry, but have the contents of a scientific publication, and the rigor which one can await from an article not having been revised yet according to the comments of a reading panel.

See too

Scientific magazine
pre-publications: the example of ArXiv
Bibliométrie and scientometry

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