Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences
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 :
- Série A, Sciences mathématiques ( ISSN 0997-4482 and 0302-8429)
- Série B, Sciences physiques ( ISSN 0302-8437 )
- Série C, Sciences chimiques ( ISSN 0567-6541 )
- Série D, Sciences naturelles ( ISSN 0567-655X )
- Supplément, Vie académique
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).
Online editions
- 1835 to 1965 at Gallica
- 1966 to 1973, Series A, B, at Gallica
- Series A, 1974, Gallica
- Series B, 1974, Gallica
- Series A, B, 1975 to 1990, Gallica
- Series C, 1966 to 1980, Gallica
- Series D, 1966 to 1980, Gallica
- Vie académique 1968 to 1970, Gallica