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Binding: Magazine
First Issue Lead Time: 12-16 weeks
Format: Magazine Subscription
Issues Per Year: 6
Label: American Scientist
Magazine Type: Trade magazine
Manufacturer: American Scientist
Number Of Issues: 6
Publisher: American Scientist
Studio: American Scientist
Subscription Length: 365 days
Sales Rank: 1008




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Articles cover all areas of science and endeavor to provide explanations of research.



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Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The New Yorker of Science Magazines
Giving this magazine such a lofty epithet may seem a bit presumptuous, but for a non scientifically trained outsider this magazine offers a fresh and challenging look at the fast paced world of science that doesn't shy away from humor and the use of terms and ideas that may require its readers to go online and define a term. And in some cases it may inspire the reader to pick up a book on science by such greats as Hawking and Greene in order to better grasp some of the concepts dealing with ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Diverse science articles written for scientists and the scientifically literate
This bimonthly magazine contains science articles written by scientists for the scientifically literate reader (primarily other scientists). W Boudville's review is, in my view, incorrect on most points. His/her claim that the American Scientist is simply the American equivalent of Nature is totally wrong. Nature is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that contains (tersely written) professional articles at the cutting edge of modern research. The American Scientist contains articles that are written ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A proportion
American Scientist is to Scientific American as polished gold is to golden polish. The former stands out for its quality, the latter for its shine.



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - American equivalent of Nature
Unlike Scientific American, this journal offers research level articles, spanning all of science. Internationally, it is comparable to Britain's Nature. Except that this journal consciously does not have that emphasis towards the biological sciences.

As you might then expect, the preferred audience is professional scientists (and engineers). Typically, a scientist might direct her paper here, instead of a journal in her field, if she expects that her results might be considered of interest to ... Read More



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