Publishing with LPR

General principles               

Publication on la Physique revisitée platform is open to non-researchers, but the standards are high. The goal is to avoid submissions from individuals without proven scientific expertise. Furthermore, la Physique revisitée is not intended to meet the institutional publication requirements of researchers; adherence to the platform’s concept is the sole criterion. The evaluation process is therefore highly selective.

Preliminary admissibility of an application

Before submitting, a new author must provide the required documents specific to their profession, demonstrating their scientific expertise. All authors must submit French abstracts of the scientific article and the associated historical document. The editor-in-chief then conducts a preliminary review of the application’s eligibility, assessing the scientific credibility of the author and the abstracts, the underlying scientific advancement, and the relevance of the topic to the fields covered by la Physique revisitée.

Conditions

Once the preliminary request is accepted, the author may proceed with the submission. The scholarly article and the associated historical document must be provided in both French and English. All documents must be submitted for the evaluation to begin, but only the French versions are evaluated. All submitted documents undergo a single-blind peer review.

Evaluation steps

Initially, a member of the editorial committee, appointed by the editor-in-chief, reads the scientific article and the historical document in turn, then verifies that the historical document explains how the scientific knowledge underlying the article’s argument was developed. The absence of a genuine connection between the scientific article and the historical document terminates the submission process due to non-compliance with the concept of la Physique revisitée.

The historical document then undergoes an evaluation, one criterion of which is strict: inaccuracies in the historical information result in the document’s rejection. If this reason for rejection does not exist, the relevance of the historical information, clarity, contribution to understanding scientific advancements, and the document’s structure are evaluated. Rejection of the historical document terminates the submission process; the article will not be evaluated.

If the historical document has passed the evaluation stage, the scientific article is evaluated by the same reviewer as well as a second expert who may be a member of the editorial board of La physique révisée or an external expert. The scientific article undergoes an evaluation based on three strict criteria: a scientific error, an incorrect application of physical laws, or a lack of scientific advancement will result in rejection. If none of the three grounds for rejection exist, non-decisive criteria are taken into account: Well-defined problem, relevance of the analysis, writing quality, appropriate scientific language, well-posed scientific basis of the argument, rigor of the method, validity of the demonstrations, understandable and correct argumentation, clear and well-interpreted results, relevance of the conclusions and perspectives, appropriate references, presence of useful annexes. These criteria may lead to revisions of the article requested from the author. In the event of differing opinions between the two reviewers, the editor-in-chief will appoint a third reviewer.

Poor quality of the translations of the scientific article and the historical document into English is not a cause for rejection but for return to the author for improvement.

Time limit

The preliminary review of a submission’s eligibility takes no more than two weeks.

After receipt of a complete submission, the evaluation timeframe is highly dependent on the subject matter and whether or not external reviewers are needed. It typically takes between 4 and 12 weeks from the submission date.