Editorial policy
Evaluation
The evaluation process for la physique revisitée is linked to its concept, which involves two documents to be assessed: the scientific article and the associated history of science article. Furthermore, the platform’s bilingual nature requires that these documents be provided in both French and English. Only the French versions are evaluated. The submitted documents undergo a single-blind peer review. The English versions are evaluated based solely on their translations.
Anti-plagiarism policy
The texts provided in the scientific article and the history of science article will be subjected to a plagiarism detector and human verification.
Acceptance criteria
The link between the scientific article and the history of science article must be clearly established: The article on the history of science should recall how the scientific knowledge that forms the basis of the argument in the research article was constructed. The scientific article must provide a fresh perspective and expand upon this knowledge through an in-depth interpretation and original conceptual avenues, without calling its validity into question. These three criteria constitute the minimum requirement.
Evaluation process
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. Each author provides both abstracts in French for both articles. 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. Both articles must be provided in both languages: 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 phases
- Initially, a member of the editorial committee, appointed by the editor-in-chief, reads the two articles in turn, then verifies that the history of science article recalls how the scientific knowledge underlying the argument of the research article was constructed. The absence of a genuine connection between the scientific article and the history of science article terminates the submission process due to non-compliance with the concept of la Physique revisitée.
- The history of science article 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 history of science article ends the submission process; the research article will not be evaluated.
- If the history of science article 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 history of science article into English is not a cause for rejection but for return to the author for improvement.
Time limit
- First step: The preliminary review of a submission’s eligibility takes no more than two weeks.
- Second step: 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.
Submission of articles to "La physique révisée"
Researchers should prioritize publication in a journal.
To submit the scientific article and its associated history-of-science article:
The process involves two steps:
- First step: Initially, you send a request via the contact form to the secretariat of La physique révisitée which will specify the preliminary documents to be provided. At a minimum, you will be asked to provide an abstract of the research article and an abstract of the article on the history of science. If you have never published with LPR, you will also be asked to submit additional documents, the nature of which will depend on your profession.
- Second step: In a second step, if the preliminary documents provided allow the editorial team to follow up on your request, you will receive a file number, a link and an access code to an author instructions page which will allow you to download the LPR format templates (.doxc for historical documents and LaTeX for scientific articles). Once your articles have been adapted to the LPR format, you may submit your application by following the link at the bottom of the page.
Special case: « the rebound »
An article following up on one or more previous scientific articles in La physique révisitée (LPR) may be published without necessarily being accompanied by an article on the history of science. An author can thus build upon previous work where the historical subject has already been addressed and published in La physique révisitée. The proposed scientific article must serve as a supplement to one or more scientific articles that have raised new questions.
This constitutes a specific publication request that the author must designate as a « rebond » when submitting the preliminary request via the contact form (using the drop-down menu).
Editorial team
Editor-in-Chief
- Bernard Gerbelot : Ingénieur Telecommunications, spécialiste Électromagnétisme, Antennes. Retired.
Editorial Board Members
Members of the editorial board participate in the evaluation of manuscripts submitted to LPR by reviewing articles whenever possible, or by contacting experts in the relevant field. The editorial scope of LPR requires interdisciplinary skills (Mathematics, Engineering).
- Yves Blot : Professeur d’université . Universidad de Oriente (Venezuela, Estado Sucre, Cumana). Retired.
- Jean-Michel Rivoire : Ingénieur. INSA GE. Retired.
- Jean-Marc Roux : Professeur Agrégé . Retired.
- Zoè Yvon : Université de Toulouse, Institut de Mathématiques – IMT, Géométrie Topologie, Algèbre
La physique revisitée is a recent and little-known organization. Its concept is very specific, and the submission process—which requires a preliminary application followed by two articles in both languages—is far more complicated than that of a typical journal. As a result, LPR receives very few requests. The editorial team is therefore still small but will undoubtedly expand when necessary.
