Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences

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The Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences is a French scientific journal published by the Académie des Sciences and its main publication organ. It is commonly called CR Acad. Sci. (or C. r. hebd. séances Acad. sci.) abbreviated, or Compte Rendu for short (French for records), and covers various scientific disciplines in mathematics and natural sciences in several series.

The French Academy of Sciences originally published the Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences series from 1666 . This was supplemented in 1835 by the journal Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des Sciences for shorter, quick reports on scientific discoveries. The initiator for this was François Arago .

From 1966 they appeared in several series by Gauthier-Villars under the title Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences :

Series A, B appeared in the same volume (except in 1974).

From 1980 to 2001 the series were rearranged under the heading Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences :

  • Série I, Mathématique ( ISSN  0764-4442 , 1778-3577 and 0249-6291)
  • Series IIa, Sciences de la terre et des planètes ( ISSN  1251-8050 )
  • Série IIb, Mécanique, physique, chimie, astronomie, ( ISSN  1251-8069 ); they appeared from 1980 to 1998
  • Série IIb, Mécanique, physique, astronomie, ( ISSN  1287-4620 ); they appeared from 1998 to 2000
  • Série IIb, Mécanique, ( ISSN  1620-7742 ), they appeared from 2000 to 2001
  • Série IIc, Chimie, ( ISSN  1387-1609 ), they appeared from 1998 to 2001
  • Series III, Sciences de la vie ( ISSN  0764-4469 et 0249-6313)
  • Série IV, Physique, astrophysique, ( ISSN  1296-2147 ), they appeared from 2000 to 2001

From 2002 they were published by Elsevier Science under the series titles:

  • Comptes rendus Mathématique ( ISSN  1631-073X ), published monthly
  • Comptes rendus Mécanique ( ISSN  1631-0721 ), published monthly
  • Comptes rendus Physique ( ISSN  1631-0705 ), 10 issues per year, also astrophysics
  • Comptes rendus Géoscience - (sciences de la terre) ( ISSN  1631-0713 ), monthly
  • Comptes rendus Palévol (paléontologie et théorie de l'évolution) ( ISSN  1631-0683 ), 8 issues per year
  • Comptes rendus Chimie ( ISSN  1631-0748 ), monthly
  • Comptes rendus Biology ( ISSN  1631-0691 ), monthly

Articles can appear in English or French, with abstracts in either language (the publisher suggests that English is preferred).

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