Forcasting rapid growth

July 28, 2015 10:40 AM

Proceedings of the Natural Institute of Science is an open-access scientific journal with a mandate to publish papers from academics and non-academics alike. Boasting a strong peer review process and a high impact factor, it's only partly serious. (Previously)
posted by bismol (8 comments total)

Hurrrr. The best part is that half the academics I know pronounce PNAS' abbreviation exactly the same way.
posted by sciatrix at 10:43 AM on July 28, 2015 [4 favorites]

Haha, yeah. The first time I heard about PNAS, I thought it was a joke. This was ripe for the taking.
posted by bismol at 11:09 AM on July 28, 2015

Papers Not Inserted in Science ?
posted by ocschwar at 12:28 PM on July 28, 2015

Good ol' PNAS, and Anal. Chem.
posted by kagredon at 1:14 PM on July 28, 2015 [2 favorites]

The best part is that half the academics I know pronounce PNAS' abbreviation exactly the same way.

Only half?
posted by pemberkins at 6:32 PM on July 28, 2015 [1 favorite]

Some of them pretend to have dignity and spell out the acronym.

The rest of us are elbowing each other and giggling, usually.
posted by sciatrix at 6:38 PM on July 28, 2015 [1 favorite]

> Good ol' PNAS, and Anal. Chem.

And let's not forget Chest, which is a journal I aspire to have my figure on the cover of.
posted by Westringia F. at 9:05 PM on July 28, 2015 [2 favorites]

From Chest's sidebar:

"Check out the latest Ultrasound Corner article: A Man in His 60s With Cirrhosis, Encephalopathy, and Shock"

It's like someone hired a clickbaiter into the scientific journal's web design team...
posted by kaibutsu at 9:17 PM on July 28, 2015