期刊缩写       NEW SCI

期刊全称       NEW SCIENTIST 《新科学家》

期刊ISSN      0262-4079

2013-2014最新影响因子     0.379

期刊官方网站       http://www.newscientist.com/

              http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist

期刊投稿网址       http://www.newscientist.com/

通讯方式       REED BUSINESS INFORMATION LTD, QUADRANT HOUSE THE QUADRANT, SUTTON, ENGLAND, SURREY, SM2 5AS

涉及的研究方向    综合性期刊-综合性期刊

出版国家       ENGLAND

出版周期       Weekly

出版年份       1971

年文章数       224

 

 

New Scientist is a weekly non-peer-reviewed English-language international science magazine, founded by Tom Margerison in 1956.[2] Since 1996 it has also run a website.

 

Sold in retail outlets and on subscription, the magazine covers current developments, news, reviews and commentary on science and technology. It also prints speculative articles, ranging from the technical to the philosophical. There is a readers' letters section which discusses recent articles, and discussions also take place on the website.

 

Readers contribute observations on examples of pseudoscience to Feedback, and questions and answers on scientific and technical topics to Last Word; extracts from the latter have been compiled into several books.

 

New Scientist is based in London, England, and publishes editions in the UK, the United States, and Australia. Sumit Paul-Choudhury became editor in 2011, following Roger Highfield's move to the National Museum of Science and Industry in London.

 

 

History

The magazine was founded in 1956 by Tom Margerison, a British science journalist and broadcaster.

 

The British science magazine Science Journal, published 1965–71, was merged with New Scientist to form New Scientist and Science Journal.

 

Originally, the cover had a text list of articles rather than a picture.[citation needed] Pages were numbered sequentially for an entire volume of many issues, as is the norm for academic journals (i.e., so that the first page of a March issue could be 651 instead of 1); later each issue's pages were numbered separately. Colour was not used except for blocks of colour on the cover. In 1964 there was a regular "Science in British Industry" section with several items. An article published on their tenth anniversary provides some anecdotes on the founding of the magazine.

 

In 1970, the company Albert E. Reed acquired New Scientist when it merged with IPC Magazines, retaining the magazine when it sold most of its consumer magazines in a management buyout to what is now IPC Media.

 

The Grimbledon Down comic strip appeared from 1970 to 1994. Ariadne, which later moved to Nature, commented every week on the lighter side of science and technology and the plausible but impractical humorous inventions of (fictitious) inventor Daedalus, often developed by the (fictitious) DREADCO corporation.

 

As of the first half of 2013, the UK circulation averaged 125,172, a 4.3% reduction on the previous year's figure, but a considerably smaller reduction than many other mainstream magazines of similar or greater circulation.