Entropy (magazine)

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Entropy

Area of ​​Expertise Physics chemistry
publishing company MDPI
First edition 1999
Frequency of publication per month
Editor-in-chief Kevin H. Knuth
Web link www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy
ISSN 1099-4300
CODEN ENTRFG

Entropy is an English Open Access - peer review - journal . It was founded in 1999 and is published by MDPI . The magazine regularly publishes special editions compiled by guest editors. The editor-in-chief is Kevin H. Knuth of the University at Albany .

aims

Entropy is an international and interdisciplinary journal for information theory , in which reviews, research reports and abstracts are published. The aim is to encourage scientists to publish their theoretical and experimental findings in detail as much as possible. Entropy is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Indexing

The journal is indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports , the magazine had an Impact Factor of 1.347 in 2012.

controversy

In 2013, the journal published a review by Anthony Samsel (according to his own account scientist and consultant at Anthony Samsel Environmental and Public Health Services , formerly consultant with Arthur D. Little ) and Stefanie Senneff (Senior Research Scientist at MIT ) on the dangers of the plant protection product glyphosate . The authors state that glyphosate is possibly the leading cause of the spread of a number of diseases. Influence possibilities were mentioned for obesity , depression , ADHD , autism , Alzheimer's disease , Parkinson's disease , multiple sclerosis , cancer and infertility . In the article, the authors refer to statements from other studies, including those that are controversial. The Reuters news agency uncritically reproduced the content of the study, as did Goldman Steff from the Goldman Environmental Prize . Other commentators criticized the study, calling it pseudoscience , as Keith Kloor wrote on his blog for popular science magazine Discover .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sections and Special Issues . In: Entropy . MDPI . Retrieved July 8, 2013.
  2. ↑ Entropy’s own representation
  3. ↑ Entropy . In: 2012 Journal Citation Reports , Science. Edition, Thomson Reuters , 2013.
  4. ↑ Samsel on LinkedIn
  5. ↑ Web site Senneff at MIT
  6. ↑ Anthony Samsel, Stephanie Seneff: 'Glyphosate's Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases' . In: Entropy . tape 15 , no. 4 , 2013, p. 1416–1463 , doi : 10.3390 / e15041416 ( PDF [accessed March 20, 2014]).
  7. ^ Carey Gilliam: Heavy use of herbicide Roundup linked to health dangers-US study at Reuters, April 25, 2013
  8. ↑ Steff Goldmann: New Study Shows Glyphosate Linked to Cancer and Parkinson's Disease
  9. ^ Keith Kloor: When Media Uncritically Cover Pseudoscience . In: Discover Magazine . Retrieved January 17, 2014. 

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