Science (journal)

Lore & Background

Edison received favorable editorial treatment in return, without disclosure of the financial relationship, at a time when his reputation was suffering due to delays producing the promised commercially viable light bulb. Alexander Graham Bell and Gardiner Greene Hubbard bought the magazine rights and hired young entomologist Samuel H. Scudder to resurrect the journal one year later. They had some success while covering the meetings of prominent American scientific societies, including the AAAS. In an agreement worked out by Cattell and AAAS secretary Leland O.

Reader's Guide

Science is significant as one of the world's top academic journals, covering the full range of scientific disciplines, unlike most journals that focus on a specific field. Important articles published in Science have included papers on fruit fly genetics by Thomas Hunt Morgan, gravitational lensing by Albert Einstein, and spiral nebulae by Edwin Hubble. The journal has also faced criticism: studies of methodological quality and reliability have found that some high-prestige journals including Science 'publish significantly substandard structures', and overall 'reliability of published research works in several fields may be decreasing with increasing journal rank'.

Did You Know?

• Fewer than 7% of articles submitted to Science are accepted for publication.
• Science received funding for COVID-19-related coverage from the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.