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Please check out our journal policies page: http://distill.pub/journal/ http://distill.pub/journal/ In brief, Distill needs to see three things to publish an a
by colah3 10y ago
Please check out our journal policies page: http://distill.pub/journal/ http://distill.pub/journal/
In brief, Distill needs to see three things to publish an article: outstanding communication, advancing the dialogue, and scientific integrity. Distill often works with authors to help them bring their articles up to our standards.
Additionally, as a primary publication, Distill will not republish content already published elsewhere, or publish "translations" of papers where someone rewrites the content of a previous paper. (This relates to advancing the dialogue.)
If you reach out to editors@distill.pub, we're happy to discuss pre-submission inquiries about journal scope and related topics.
- stared 10y agoThank you! Of course I read it, just (as it is a new thing) still guessing what is a good fit, and what isn't. (For some reason I though that this t-SNE article was published elsewhere. Now I see that it was on Distill, but just before its big start.)
- colah3 10y agoYep, we're still clarifying our policies. If you have questions, please email us! (Distill needs to be extra careful about a lot of this stuff because we're trying to build legitimacy for a kind of work that many people are inclined to not treat as academic contributions. So on some things, like being a primary publication, we may end up taking a more defensive posture than we would in an ideal world.)
- stared 10y agoI wish all the best to this wonderful initiative! (As a side note, my co-advisor dreamt about this style of communication in science (though, in physics): https://physicsnapkins.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/a-personal-dream-jpi/. https://physicsnapkins.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/a-personal-d...) I totally understand that you need to be set high reference level at the very beginning, even if at the cost of being a bit "conservative" (I am not sure if the best word here).