The Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results
Posted Mar 12, 2010 - 09:25 AM
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A forthcoming journal whose aim is to change the attitude not to sharing negative results has been announced: the Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results.
From the announcement:
Successful research often leads through reasonable yet unsuccessful approaches and unexpected discoveries. Indeed the history of science is rife with examples of important discoveries arising from such results. In particular, two of today's most fruitful areas of research, computational sciences and life sciences, have no major venues in which such intermediate results can be discussed. It is our belief that a forum for and dialogue on serendipitous and unexpected results in these areas will provide valuable insight and inform modern research practices.
The Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results (JSUR) is an open-access forum for researchers seeking to further scientific discovery by sharing surprising or unexpected results. These results should provide guidance toward the verification (or negation) of extant hypotheses. |
