| Progress in Physics | |
| Editor: | Dmitri Rabounski |
| Discipline: | Theoretical and experimental physics |
| Abbreviation: | Prog. Phys. |
| Frequency: | Quarterly |
| History: | 2005–present |
| License: | CC BY-NC-ND 2.5 |
| Website: | http://progress-in-physics.com/ |
| Lccn: | 2005212250 |
| Issn: | 1555-5534 |
| Eissn: | 1555-5615 |
Progress in Physics is an open-access academic journal, publishing papers in theoretical and experimental physics, including related themes from mathematics. The journal was founded by Dmitri Rabounski, Florentin Smarandache, and Larissa Borissova in 2005, and is published quarterly. Rabounski is the editor-in-chief, while Smarandache and Borissova act as associate editors. It was included on Beall's List of potentially-predatory journals at the time that list was last updated.[1] Since 2008, the Norwegian Scientific Index has rated it a "Level 0" journal, indicating that publication there does not count for official academic career or public funding purposes.[2]
The journal aims to promote fair and non-commercialized science, as stated in its Declaration of Academic Freedom:[3]
The journal describes itself as peer-reviewed.[4] The review procedure is specified as follows:
The referees of the papers published are not listed, although anonymity of referees is specifically criticized in "Article 8: Freedom to publish scientific results" of the Declaration of Academic Freedom.[3] This document harshly criticizes the current peer-review system using the words "censorship", "alleged expert referees", "blacklisting", and "bribes". The journal has published papers by several authors, who, along with some of the editors, claim to have been blacklisted by the Cornell University arXiv, as proponents of fringe scientific theories.[5] [6]
The journal is or has been indexed and abstracted in the following bibliographic databases:
It was indexed in the (paywalled) aggregator Open J-Gate and in the website Scientific Commons.