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Hi,
My post-doc and I have recently discovered that some of our research has implications in theoretical physics (enzyme kinetics->entropy calculations->mathematical physics, sound odd but gets some neat stuff out of it), and would like to publish the work in a theoretical physics journal. However, neither of us are quite sure how the publication process in physics works, and I figure, since I have some time before we start working on such a paper, before I go making a jackass out of myself by walking up to a random physics professor to take up his time asking stupid questions, I might ask them an this nice annonymous online forum first.🙂 (Yeah, I know most of you guys, like me, work in biology related fields, but I don't know of any other forum to turn to and who knows, maybe there is somebody here who is a theoretical physics researcher or has heard rumors about these sorts of things.)
Does anybody know what the timeline for the mathematical/theoretical physics review process? Is it typically a couple of months like in biology or years as I've heard can be the case for mathematics papers? Is it customary to put out a pre-print on a server like arxiv, or is that the exception rather than the rule? If it is the usually done, how long is a pre-print usually kept up before submission? What are some of the harder/easier journals to get published to get published in? (Or phrased differently, what are some of the higher/lower impact journals? I can find a whole bunch on science web, but can't find impact factors for most of them.) Is this a field where a paper can only get published if a big name is attached to it? Is this an area like economics where a paper is presented for years at conferences before published?
Answers to any of the above questions would be greatly appreciated. Failing that, any pointers to other forums where I could ask these questions would be equally appreciated.
My post-doc and I have recently discovered that some of our research has implications in theoretical physics (enzyme kinetics->entropy calculations->mathematical physics, sound odd but gets some neat stuff out of it), and would like to publish the work in a theoretical physics journal. However, neither of us are quite sure how the publication process in physics works, and I figure, since I have some time before we start working on such a paper, before I go making a jackass out of myself by walking up to a random physics professor to take up his time asking stupid questions, I might ask them an this nice annonymous online forum first.🙂 (Yeah, I know most of you guys, like me, work in biology related fields, but I don't know of any other forum to turn to and who knows, maybe there is somebody here who is a theoretical physics researcher or has heard rumors about these sorts of things.)
Does anybody know what the timeline for the mathematical/theoretical physics review process? Is it typically a couple of months like in biology or years as I've heard can be the case for mathematics papers? Is it customary to put out a pre-print on a server like arxiv, or is that the exception rather than the rule? If it is the usually done, how long is a pre-print usually kept up before submission? What are some of the harder/easier journals to get published to get published in? (Or phrased differently, what are some of the higher/lower impact journals? I can find a whole bunch on science web, but can't find impact factors for most of them.) Is this a field where a paper can only get published if a big name is attached to it? Is this an area like economics where a paper is presented for years at conferences before published?
Answers to any of the above questions would be greatly appreciated. Failing that, any pointers to other forums where I could ask these questions would be equally appreciated.
