Is there a hard and fast definition between what is scientific journal and what is a journalistic publication about science?
A. I think the honest answer to that question is, not a hard and fast definition. But basically, a scientific journal in the more general sense is a journal that publishes the original results of scientific investigation, experiments, materials and methods, techniques, and presents original, never-published-before scientific data. In fact, a scientific journal of the sort that I have edited, such as the Journal of Cell Biology, actually has a rule, and that is that, you cannot send into that journal any results from any experiment that have been published anywhere else before. So we want only original micrographs, original gels, original DNA sequences, original experimental results. Some of the other journals that have just now come up in the discussion, Natural History magazine, Technology Review. And let me pick a couple of other journals that are well-known. Scientific American, Discover magazine are journals or magazines that publish science, but they don’t publish original scienti
