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... that William & Mary's president was unable to get the college to fund the William and Mary Quarterly, so he paid for it himself? (2026-02-08)
... that a search engine for pirated books has been used to train large language models? (2025-03-14)
... that scientists publishing in Liebigs Annalen were subject to criticism and attacks by editor Justus von Liebig? (2024-09-30)
... that according to one creationist journal, HIV has its origins in the Fall? (2024-06-23)
... that researchers submitting to the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy intentionally introduced security bugs into Linux? (2024-06-08)
... that the Data Colada bloggers drew attention to the replication crisis by exposing faulty social science research? (2023-11-14)
... that the founder of Annales des Maladies de la Peau et de la Syphilis claimed to have inoculated himself with syphilis? (2023-10-28)
... that The Cormac McCarthy Journal is one of the few academic journals about a specific author from the United States founded while its subject was alive? (2023-09-17)
... that in the 1950s, links to sexually transmitted infection were dropped from the title of several skin-disease journals, including the Archives of Dermatological Research? (2023-08-23)
... that Basic Medicine features North Korean propaganda? (2023-04-07)

... that a 700-page article published in Lustrum was issued over the course of twelve years? (2022-12-26)
... that the Regensburg Botanical Society, founded on 14 May 1790, is the world's oldest extant botanical society? (2022-10-26)
... that a study published in the journal Celebrity Studies examined Pippa Middleton's buttocks using Marxist and Freudian analyses? (2022-07-15)
... that the American Institute of Musicology has published over 650 volumes of early music since 1946? (2021-09-19)
... that Research Policy is regarded as the leading journal in the field of innovation studies? (2021-08-29)
... that the World Health Organization's Weekly Epidemiological Record reports on neglected tropical diseases? (2020-11-08)
... that a law blog has been cited by the supreme courts of Poland and of Germany? (2020-10-25)
... that in the Australian Journal of Herpetology, a first-year student and a high school teacher reassessed the taxonomy of Australia's entire reptile class, naming 33 novel genera and 214 new species? (2020-05-20)
... that physicist John Bell published the theorem that now bears his name in a journal sometimes called by the unusual title Physics Physique Физика? (2020-02-18)
... that Skandinavskii sbornik (Scandinavian Review) was the principal forum for Soviet scholars of Nordic studies for 35 years until the collapse of the Soviet Union? (2020-02-06)
... that the journal Minnesota History covers topics ranging from the Dakota War of 1862 and cholera in the state to root beer stands of the Midwest? (2019-05-16)
... that the entire editorial board of the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health resigned in protest in November 2017 over disputes involving the new editor-in-chief? (2018-08-30)
... that supplements and "symposia" published by academic journals may be paid publications, neither independently peer-reviewed nor edited by journal staff? (2018-07-03)
... that the Elsevier publication Explore: The Journal of Science & Healing has been described as a "sham masquerading as a real scientific journal" that publishes "truly ridiculous studies"? (2017-01-27)
... that Paul von Groth edited Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie for 44 years and used it to catalog the properties of more than 9,000 crystalline substances? (2017-01-09)
... that The Shaker Quarterly, which began publication in 1961, helped revive interest in the Shakers? (2017-01-01)
... that the focus of Harvard Environmental Law Review was changed because the original format was "too ambitious"? (2016-12-13)
... that Christoph Bartneck wrote a nonsense submission for a predatory conference using iOS's autocomplete function and it was accepted within three hours? (2016-11-18)
... that the philosophy journal Between the Species took its name from a fictional periodical mentioned in a George Abbe novel? (2016-10-13)
... that in the second year after its launch, biological preprints hosted on bioRxiv repository were tweeted about on over 20,000 occasions? (2016-10-07)
... that Public Health Reports was established in 1878 to meet the requirements of the National Quarantine Act, which required American consulates abroad to report on epidemic diseases? (2015-09-12)
... that students at the University of San Diego created a law journal to encourage scholarship about "the world's transition to a climate-safe economy"? (2015-09-05)
... that in the first edition of the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, Michael I. Sovern assured readers the journal would not be "recycled" like another "long-gone New York newspaper"? (2015-08-25)
... that The Urban Lawyer is the largest circulating government law journal in the world? (2015-07-17)
... that the journal Genes, Brain and Behavior is trying to raise standards for mouse mutant studies and reduce the unnecessary use of animals in flawed studies? (2014-08-29)
... that due to enemy action in World War I, one set of expensive epigraphic illustration plates for The Indian Antiquary had to be sent from London to Bombay three times? (2014-06-16)
... that Accounting, Organizations and Society is a top academic accounting journal that focuses on the relationship between accounting and both human behaviour and organisations? (2014-02-03)
... that publishing in leading accounting journals affects many aspects of an accounting researcher's career, including reputation, salary, and promotion? (2014-01-28)
... that articles in The Accounting Review, a top accounting journal, have become increasingly mathematically rigorous over the past decades? (2014-01-22)
... that early work on Bell's theorem appeared in an "underground" physics newsletter, Epistemological Letters (1973–1984), because mainstream journals were reluctant to publish it? (2014-01-02)
... that in a recent academic study, Who's Afraid of Peer Review?, a fake manuscript sent to open-access publishers was accepted by 157 and rejected by 98? (2013-11-12)
... that Virology is the first English-language journal to focus on viruses? (2013-02-22)
... that the Indian Journal of Medical Research, first edited by Sir Pardey Lukis, is celebrating its centenary this year? (2013-01-30)
... that the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, led by future poet laureate Sam Ragan, was the first cabinet-level department in the United States focused solely on the arts and history? (2012-12-18)
... that after twice fleeing civil unrest in Nigeria, Amina Mama moved to South Africa, where she became director of the African Gender Institute and founding editor of its peer-reviewed journal, Feminist Africa? (2012-12-16)
... that the open-access journal PeerJ runs in the cloud on EC2 and S3? (2012-06-26)
... that 20% of the authors in various academic disciplines report being the target of coercive citation by scientific journal editors? (2012-06-02)
... that the Research Works Act proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives would ban open access mandates for federally funded research? (2012-01-15)
... that Theodosius Dobzhansky was the first president of the Behavior Genetics Association? (2011-02-21)
... that The Concord Review is the only academic journal in the world to publish the research papers of high school students? (2011-01-16)
... that Minds and Machines is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering artificial intelligence, philosophy, and cognitive science? (2010-10-12)
... that the earliest accurate description of an action potential appears in the first issue of the physiology journal Pflügers Archiv? (2010-08-28)
... that the Oceanography Society gives out the Jerlov Award "in Recognition of Contribution Made to the Advancement of Our Knowledge of the Nature and Consequences of Light in the Ocean"? (2010-08-08)
... that the Journal of Contemporary Religion, covering new religious movements and trends in mainstream religion, was founded in 1985 as Religion Today, with Peter B. Clarke as its founding editor? (2010-06-25)
... that the Journal of Pathology, founded in 1892, has been the official journal of the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland since 1906? (2010-04-13)
... that the American Journal of Physical Anthropology was selected as one of the top 10 most influential journals of the last 100 years in the fields of biology and medicine? (2010-01-12)
... that ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a proposed DOI for scientific authors that according to journal Nature could be used in 'edits of Wikipedia entries'? (2009-12-26)
... that a June 5, 1981, report by Dr. Joel Weisman in MMWR about five gay men with an unusual illness is recognized as the start of the AIDS pandemic and "the first report on AIDS in the medical literature"? (2009-08-04)
... that the American Bar Association Journal is allegedly read every month by half of the 1 million lawyers in the United States? (2009-03-27)
... that the 1908 Annual Bulletin of the Comparative Law Bureau was the first journal of comparative law in the United States? (2009-03-26)
... that the first and so far the only mathematics paper by Bill Gates was published in Discrete Mathematics in 1979? (2009-03-22)
... that the open access, peer reviewed journal Trials encourages publication of protocols, which the journal's editor Doug Altman has suggested may reduce data dredging and publication bias? (2009-02-27)
... that the concept of "molecular disease" from the 1949 paper "Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease" became the basis for Linus Pauling's later views on molecular evolution and eugenics? (2009-02-13)
... that the idea that molecular evolution is dominated by genetic drift originally took its name from the 1969 paper "Non-Darwinian Evolution"? (2009-02-13)
... that the scientific-technical journal Oil Shale is the only journal in the world that focuses on oil shale as a main subject? (2008-12-31)
... that Biochimica et Biophysica Acta was the first international journal launched by publishing giant Elsevier? (2008-12-14)
... that Kalaallit Dr. Karla Jessen Williamson was Editor of the Journal of Indigenous Studies before she became the first woman and first Inuk Executive Director at the Arctic Institute of North America? (2008-11-02)
... that the Willamette Law Review offices are housed in a former Carnegie library re-dedicated in a ceremony featuring U.S. Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg? (2008-10-03)
... that Open Access movement, a social movement in academia dedicated to the principle of open access—information sharing for the common good—traces its history to 1960s or earlier? (2008-08-11)
... that L'Année philologique (The Year in Philology) annually gathers scholarly work related to ancient Greece and Rome from approximately 2,000 sources? (2008-08-10)
... that the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, founded in 1853, was edited for 68 years by the Lankester family? (2008-04-22)
... that the Edinburgh Phrenological Society started its own journal to promote phrenology in 1824, after the Royal Medical Society refused to publish the results of a debate about the subject? (2008-03-14)
... that Epigraphia Carnatica, compiled by Benjamin L. Rice, contains a study of about 9000 inscriptions found in the Old Mysore region of India? (2008-03-13)
... that scholarly journal Anarchist Studies was attacked by Stewart Home as a "sad and reactionary 'academic' journal" incapable of engaging in critical debate? (2008-02-24)
... that the International Association for Plant Taxonomy organizes international symposia on problems of plant systematics? (2007-12-19)
... that Le Naturaliste Canadien is the oldest French-language academic journal in North America? (2007-10-31)
... that the New Zealand Journal of Forestry was first published in 1925 with a title in Māori? (2007-10-22)
... that the academic journal African Affairs was first published to commemorate the travels of the explorer Mary Kingsley? (2007-10-13)
... that Astronomische Nachrichten, founded by H. C. Schumacher (pictured) in 1821, is the world's oldest extant astronomical journal? (2007-10-12)
... that new bacterial species names are not considered valid until published in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology? (2007-10-02)
... that the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, today a prominent academic journal in statistics, had as its first work a simple door-to-door survey of occupations in Manchester? (2007-09-25)
... that each year over 1000 research papers are submitted for academic publishing in the Journal of Finance (finance's most cited journal) of which only five are awarded Smith Breeden or Brattle Prizes? (2007-09-14)
... that the Journal of Molecular Evolution, founded in 1971, was the first scientific journal dedicated to this field? (2007-09-09)
... that ACS Chemical Biology is the first peer-reviewed scientific journal to publish 3D interactive chemical structures replicating printed figures? (2007-08-06)
... that authorship of a research article in fields such as genome sequencing and particle physics is sometimes claimed by over 100 scientists? (2007-07-07)

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