Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences
scientific journal
Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences (French pronunciation: [kɔ̃t ʁɑ̃dy də lakademi de sjɑ̃s], Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences), or simply Comptes rendus, is a French scientific journal published since 1835. It is the proceedings of the French Academy of Sciences. It is currently split into seven sections, published on behalf of the Academy until 2020 by Elsevier: Mathématique, Mécanique, Physique, Géoscience, Palévol, Chimie, and Biologies. As of 2020, the Comptes Rendus journals are published by the Academy with a diamond open access model.
Naming history
The journal has had several name changes and splits over the years.
1835–1965
Comptes rendus was initially established in 1835 as Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des Sciences. It began as an alternative publication pathway for more prompt publication than the Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences, which had been published since 1666. The Mémoires, which continued to be published alongside the Comptes rendus throughout the nineteenth century, had a publication cycle which resulted in memoirs being published years after they had been presented to the Academy. Some academicians continued to publish in the Mémoires because of the strict page limits in the Comptes rendus.
1966–1980
After 1965 this title was split into five sections:
Série A (Sciences mathématiques) – mathematics
Série B (Sciences physiques) – physics and geosciences
Série C (Sciences chimiques) – chemistry
Série D (Sciences naturelles) – life sciences
Vie académique – academy notices and miscellanea (between 1968 and 1970, and again between 1979 and 1983)
Series A and B were published together in one volume except in 1974.
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