Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 37

The strongest are:

As indicated by its name, the journal contains mostly short letters sent to the editor, often 2 or 3 pages long, which allows for a faster publication cycle and dissemination of new results. This is notably useful for experimental physics.

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This was so hot (no pun intended) and reproducible that the prize was awarded one year after discovery. Quite rare in those days already.

This metric is so dumb! It only helps maintain existing closed journals closed! Why not just do a PageRank on the articles themselve instead? Like the h-index does for authors? That would make so much more sense!

Not to be confused with the University of Michigan. Not confusing at all right!

Not to be confused with the Michigan State University. Not confusing at all right!

The inaugural that predicted the Josephson effect.

Published on Physics Letters, then a new journal, before they split into Physics Letters A and Physics Letters B. True Genius: The Life and Science of John Bardeen mentions that this choice was made rather than the more prestigious Physical Review Letters because they were not yet so confident about the results.

Paywalled by Elsevier as of 2023 at: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0031916362913690