The Gatekeepers of Modern Physics: Periodicals and Peer Review in 1920s Britain

@article{Clarke2015TheGO,
  title={The Gatekeepers of Modern Physics: Periodicals and Peer Review in 1920s Britain},
  author={Imogen Clarke},
  journal={Isis},
  year={2015},
  volume={106},
  pages={70 - 93}
}
This essay analyzes the processes behind the publication of physics papers in two British journals in the 1920s: the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Series A and the Philosophical Magazine. On the surface, it looked as though the Philosophical Magazine was managed very informally, while the Proceedings had in place a seemingly rigid system of committee approval and peer review. This essay shows, however, that in practice the two journals were both influenced by networks of expertise… Expand
View on U of Chicago
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
9 Citations
Background Citations
1
Methods Citations
1

9 Citations

Citation Type

Citation Type

THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND THE PREHISTORY OF PEER REVIEW, 1665–1965
  • 40
  • PDF
Managing the Growth of Peer Review at the Royal Society Journals, 1865-1965
  • 3
Beams of Particles and Papers. The Role of Preprint Archives in High Energy Physics
  • 1
  • PDF
A Moral Obligation to Proper Experimentation: Research Ethics as Epistemic Filter in the Aftermath of World War II
A Complete Bibliography of Publications in Isis, 2000{2009
  • 1
  • PDF
In referees we trust
  • 25
Editors, referees, and committees: Distributing editorial work at the Royal Society journals in the late 19th and 20th centuries
  • 1
  • PDF
The business of being an editor: Norman Lockyer, Macmillan and Company, and the editorship of Nature, 1869–1919
  • 3
List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 2015

References

SHOWING 1-10 OF 12 REFERENCES
James Jeans and radiation theory
  • 5
The Vortex Atom: A Victorian Theory of Everything
  • 43
How Journal Editors came to Develop and Critique Peer Review Procedures
  • 13
The Maxwellians
  • 1991
Rutherford's Satellite Model of the Nucleus
  • 9
The Thought of Late Victorian Physicists: Oliver Lodge's Ethereal Body
  • Sir James Jeans: A Biography
  • 1952
In the end, neither Hicks's nor Lees's papers was published
  • Obituary Notices Fellows Roy. Soc
  • 1935
Fleetway, 1924); and Jeans
  • The Quantum Theory and New Theories of Atomic Structure
  • 1919
Jeans has retrospectively been labeled a "classical physicist," but, as Staley has pointed out, he is unlikely to have been viewed as such by his contemporaries. See Staley
  • On the Lucasian Professorship and its holders see Kevin C. Knox and Richard Noakes, From Newton to Hawking: A History of Cambridge University's Lucasian Professors of Mathematics
  • 1900
Hargreaves noted in a letter to Larmor that he usually sent his mathematical physics to these two destinations: Richard Hargreaves to Larmor
  • Joseph Larmor Papers
...
1
2
...