Journals for Electrical Engineers By CHARLES F. DALZIEL

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MOST E N G I N E E R S as well as educational and research institutions are continually faced with the problem of locating reliable, adequate, and

up-to-date sources of information. Obviously, s tandard textbooks and important periodicals are the basic sources. However, because textbooks present in permanent form generally accepted theories or facts which probably first appeared in periodical publications a t a much earlier date, the lat ter are the most important sources of current

information. This article is an abridgement of a recent report on evaluation of scientific periodicals,1 and pre­written especially for ELECTRICAL ENOINBERIKG, based on "Evaluation of Periodicals for Electrical Engineers," The Library Quarterly, Unviersity of Chicago Press, July 1937, from which tables I to IV are republished. CHARLES F. DALZIEL is instructor in electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, from which he received the degrees of bachelor of science (1927), master of science (1934), and electrical engineer (1935). He was employed by the General Electric Company and the San Diego Consolidated Gas and Electric Company prior to joining the faculty of the university in 1932.

1. For all numbered references, see list at end of paper.

Table I. Total References to Foreign Journals

Periodical

5. Zeitschrift fUr physikalische Chemie (German) j (Abteiluneen B) ß

9. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Akademie van WetenschapPen te Amster-

19. Wissenschaftlicke Veroffentlichungen aus dem Siemens Konzern (German)

24. Zeitschrift fur Elektrochemie und angewandte physikalische Chemie (Ger-

40. Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Matke-

48. Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratorium der Rijks-Universiteit te Leiden,

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. 12 . . * . 24 . .

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38 . .

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35 . .

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42 . .

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* Published at irregular intervals.

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Table II. References to Foreign Journals Found in English-Language Journals

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1. Annalen der Physik 37 84 15 2 15 5 3 18 170 349 2. Zeitschrift far Physik 1 112 16 2 3 34 12 1 16 15 68 280 3. Physikalische Zeilschrifl 1 1 . . . . 28 13 1 4 . . . 6 6 7 67 152 4. Académie des Sciences, Comptes rendus 9 . . . . 32 3 2 3 2 . . . . 1 7 2 8 . . . . 96 5. Hochfrequenzlechnik und Elektroakustik 6 . . . . 1 . . . .40. . . . 1 . . . .21 4 2 1 . . . . 1 0 . . . . 4 . . . . 90 â. Archivfur Elektrolechnik 3 17 3 1 3 6 . . . . 3 1. . . . 10 3 77 7. Naturwissenschaften 16. . . . 4 4. . . . 1 7 44. . . . 76 8. Zeilschrifl far technische Physik 2 9 13 4 5 2 3 2 19 1 60 9. Elektrische Nachrichten Technik 3 11 11 1 16 42

10. Zeilschrifl far physikalische Chemie 9 15 1 2 14 41 11. Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam, Proceedings 22. . . . 2 4 11. . . . 39 12. Elektrolechnik und Maschinenbau 13 13 26 13. Zeitschrift fiir anorganische und allgemeine Chemie 2 2 . . . . 4 26 14. Journal de physique et le radium 2 . . . . 2 1 1 8 . . . . 23 15. Elektrotechnische Zeitschrift 4 12 1 2 19 16. Journal de chimie physique 1 . . . . 1 1 . . . . 3 . . . . 2 2 . . . . 19 17. Wissenschaftliche Veroffentlichungen aus dem Siemens Konsern 2 . . . . 3 . . . . 2 5 . . . . 1 . . . .1 2 . . . . 16 18. L'Onde ιlectrique 1 8 5 14 19. Physica 2 5 3 2 2 14 20. Zeitschrift far Kristallographie 1 8 5 14 21. Helvetica physica acta 2 2 3 . . . . 5 . . . . 12 22. Revue gιnιral de l'ιlectricitι 2 5. . . . 5 12 23. Telegrathen und Fernsprechtechnik 9 1 10 24. Zeitschrift far Elektrochemie und angewandte physikalische Chemie 10 10 25. Telefunken-zeilung 1 7 1 9 26. Annales des postes, tιlιgraphes et tιlιphones 3 5 8 27. Kolloid Zeilschrifl 7 7 28. Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratorium der Rijks-Universiteit te Leiden, Communica­

tion 7 7 29. Zeitschrift fur Instrumenlenkunde 2 . . . . 1 . . . . 1 1 1 1 . . . . 7 30. Alta frequenza 2 3 5 31. Stahlund Eisen 4 4 32. Zeitschrift fur angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik 4 4 33. L'Elettrotecnica 2 1 3 34. Atti dιlia Reale Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 2. . . . 2 35. Zeitschrift des Vereines deutscher Ingιnieure 1 1 2 36. Revue d'optique thιorique et instrumentale 1 1 37. Deutsche Beleuchtungslechnische Gesellschaft 1 1 38. Archiv fiir Technisches Messen 1 1 39. Siemens Zeitschrift 1 1 40. Annales de chimie 1 1 41. Mathematische Annalen 1 1 42. Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaf ten M athematisch-

naturwissenschaftlichte Klasse 1 1 43. Elektrizitatswirtschaft Mitteilungen 1 1 44. Société Française Electriciens, Bulletin 1 1

sents lists totaling 108 journals for electrical engineers, interest to English-speaking institutions, while tables A list of all the engineering periodicals purchased by I and IV should be of value to those in foreign countries.

the General Library and the College of Engineering The following precautions were taken in this study: Library, University of California, together with McNeely (1) In order to allow for radical differences in editorial and Crosno's 50 periodicals for electrical engineers,2 was policies, styles, and languages, periodicals published in circulated among members of the department of electrical foreign languages have been tabulated separately. (2) engineering for rating. This gave a preliminary list of All references to the same publication as that in which important journals which were then used for a reference the citation appears have been recorded but not counted count involving 20,322 references. The results of the in obtaining the totals. This was done to eliminate investigation are arranged in four tables. A list of 48 criticism regarding any undue advantages of the maga-foreign journals, obtained from tabulating the references zines used for reference counting. (3) In order to limit found in 9 foreign and 11 English-language periodicals is the references to fields associated with electrical engineer-given in table I. A tabulation of foreign journals ob- ing, the periodicals used for reference counting were the tained from the references found in the 11 English- available publications selected from those receiving language periodicals is given in table II. A list of 60 the highest faculty rating. (4) In order to limit further the English-language periodicals obtained from the references references to this field, all periodicals on the final lists, found in the 9 foreign and the 11 English-language maga- that is, tables I and III (with a few exceptions) were zines is given in table III . The list of English-language referred to by two or more publications. (5) The journals journals obtained from the foreign references is given used for reference counting were taken for the year 1934. in table IV. Tables II and III should be of particular Where certain issues were not available, the correspond-

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Table III. Total References to English-Language Journals

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Physical Review 24 Royal Society of London { ̂ " " ' J , * ^ } * London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine

and Journal of Science 12 Nature 52 Electrical Engineering 12 Journal of the American Chemical Society 12 Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers 12 Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 12 General Electric Review 12 Electrical World 24 Journal of the Franklin Institute 12 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 12 Transactions of the Optical Society 12 Review of Scientific Instruments 12 Bureau of Standards Journal of Research 12 Proceedings of the Physical Seciety 6 Astrophysical Journal 10 Bell System Technical Journal 4 Indian Journal of Physics * Reviews of Modern Physics 4 Electrician 52 Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 4 Journal of Chemical Physics 12 Wireless Engineer and Experimental Wireless 12 Physics 12 Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 4 Electric Journal 12 Transactions of the Faraday Society 12 Engineering 52 Journal of Scientific Instruments 12 Science 52 Post Οβ-ce Electrical Engineers Journal 4 Mechanical Engineering 12. . Electrical Communication 4 Railway Age 52 Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences... 24 Society of Motion Picture Engineers Journal 12 Electronics 12 Radio Engineering 12 Electrical Review 52 Engineering News Record 52 Journal of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan... 12 Transactions of the American Electrochemical Society 2 Engineer 52 Wireless World 52 Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Journal of the Chemical Society 12 American Journal of Science 12 Bell Laboratories Record 12 American Mathematics Society Transactions 6 . . American Railway Engineering Association Bulletin 10 Transit Journal 12 Edison Electric Institute Publications * Radio World 52 American Journal of Roenlgenology and Radium Therapy... 12 Transactions of the American Illuminating Engineering

Society 9 Power 12 Instruments 12

, . . _ . i Journal 4 1 London Mathematical Society { Proceedings . 13* ( Power Plant Engineering 12

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64 12 1 5 7 11

124 . . 20 .. 1 41 .. 2

(16). 40 . 8 .

26 . 1 . 6 .

18 . 8 . 50 . 3 . 21 .

(148). 5 . 7 . 4 .

62 12

11

124.. 13 13

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(93). 5 . 1 . 2 . 1 .

20 16 3 9 1

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(459). 2 . 30 . 15 . 51 . 28 . 18 .

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482 344 291 272 175 121 120 109

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93 89 85 80 63 63 62 60 67 57 56 51 49 49 47 35 28 22 21 18 18 17 17 16 16

. 15 14 13 12 Π 11 11 10 8 8 8

* Published at irregular intervals.

ing issues of 1933 were used. Magazines no longer published were omitted, and the present title only is given in instances where it was known that mergers or changes in title have taken place.

The method used in this analysis is justified by the assumption that the most important technical contri­butions are based on previously published work; hence, periodicals containing valuable articles should contain

some references to other important works. The tabula­tion of the references obtained from a representative number of periodicals covering the field should show relative values. Owing to different editorial policies, number of articles per issue, issues per year, and the type of article published, the results of any such tabulation must be interpreted with care. The actual location of any periodical in the lists is not an index of absolute

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Table IV. Foreign References to English-Language Journals

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1. Physical Review 45 21 4 32 353 266 10 88 819 2. Royal Society of London {rrlTsaluons} 18 7 3 91 151 8 30 2 310 3. London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Jour­

nal of Science 13 1 6 12 71 72 13 33 2 223 4. Nature 27 104 4 11 13 159 5. Journal of the American Chemical Society 61 1 63 26 2 153 6. Electrical Engineering 2 74 15 19 2 2 2 1 117 7. Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 12 26 4 17 1 1 8 67 8. Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers 6 4 3 3 43 2 61 9. Electrical World 44 2 9 55

10. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 10 2 19 20 3 54 11. General Electric Review 1 40 5 2 1 49 12. Indian Journal of Physics 14 20 4 8 1 47 13. Bureau of Standards Journal of Research 4 4 9 4 7 14 42 14. Transactions of the Optical Society 5 2 11 9 14 41 lb. Journal of the Franklin Institute 1 6 2 1 15 2 4 8 39 16. Proceedings of the Physical Society 4 1 2 3 4 12 6 3 1 36 17. Electrician 25 2 3 2 2 1 35 18. Engineering 15 15 30 19. Review of Scientific Instruments 1 4 11 3 2 1 22 20. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 8 6 8 22 21. Astrophysical Journal 1 8 10 19 22. Bell System Technical Journal 5." 1 3 5 . . . . . . 2 16 23. Transactions of the Faraday Society 2 5 9 16 24. Electric Journal 8 2 4 14 25. Engineering News Record 14 14 26. Physics 6 4 2 1 13 27. Railway Age 12 1 13 28. Journal of the Chemical Society 8 2 10 29. Science 3 3 3 1 10 30. Society of Motion Pictures Engineers Journal 0 9 31. American Mathematics Society Transactions 8 8 32. Journal of Chemical Physics 2 1 3 2 8 33. Mechanical Engineering 1 7 8 34. Electrical Review 4 2 6 35. Radio World 6 6 36. Journal of Scientific Instruments 2 2 1 5 37. American Journal of Science 5 5 38. Radio Engineering 5 5 39. Wireless Engineer and Experimental Wireless 5 5 40. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 3 1 4

41. London Mathematical Society { ^""eκdings \ 1 3 4

42. American Journal of Roenlgenology and Radium Therapy 1 2 3 43. Engineer 1 2 3 44. Journal of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan 3 3 45. Post Office Electrical Engineers Journal 3 3 46. Reviews of Modern Physics 3 3 47. Transactions of the American Electrochemical Society 2 2 48. Bell Laboratories Record 2 2 49. Electronics 2 2 50. Electrical Communication 1 1 51. Wireless World 1 1

value; the relative location, however, should aid in de- information is included in tables I and I I I . The lists termining the importance of technical publications. may be seen to be practically independent of the source of

Those preparing for graduate work and research may be references. This is interpreted to mean t h a t a sufficient interested to note the languages of importance to electrical number of references have been tabulated to obtain engineers. The usual academic requirement of French approximately full coverage of the field. This paper, and German is amply justified from inspection of table I I . which presents a much larger list than t h a t previously

Examination of the lists may be disappointing to the published,2 · ' m a y assist those interested in a compre-adherents of a particular journal. I t should be repeated hensive list of technical periodicals for electrical engineers. that these lists are submitted as suggestions, only, and are subject to the limitations previously mentioned. The p , reader is referred to reference 1 for a more detailed dis­cussion of assumptions, methods of analysis, and other L EVALUATION OP PERIODICALS FOR ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS, Charles F . p o i n t s . T h e final C h o i c e Of a p a r t i c u l a r m a g a z i n e m u s t Dalziel. Library Quarterly, University of Chicago Press, volume 7, number 3, r r - e> july 1937_ pages 354-72. be made after a detailed consideration of the needs of the 2 PERIODICALSPOR ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS, J. K. McNedy and c. D. crosno. individual or institution. Neglecting all other factors, science, volume 72,1930, pages 81-4. the number of issues per year is an index of value; this ^m™^™,™!,STm' * " H°°ker· *™° °'**""*

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