Self-indulgent nerdy post

It's 2:45 am on what is now Father's Day (whoop de doo! a fake holiday!) and I am still up because Lenny has completely destroyed whatever semblance of a sleep schedule I used to have,* so I figure I'd come on here and write about what I've been having fun with for the last week, and since of the eight people who actually ever read this crap five are involved at least tangentially in science this might be familiar.

If you've never really searched the scientific literature, you might be surprised by how narrow the scopes of some journals are. The best way to do this is simply to list some of the titles of the journals, and you might be amazed that there is an entire journal devoted to that topic, like the Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, which exists and is published by Elsevier. I am starting writing up another manuscript right now, and I am searching for journals that I may want to publish in, because that actually helps me determine which experiments I'd like to conduct (usually you go the other way around, of course, but my situation is different at the moment for reasons that I will spare explaining to you). Some of the titles are hilariously dorky. I have already published in or submitted to Thin Solid Films, Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, and Microelectronic Engineering. The following is a list of titles that have any possibility of me submitting to, excluding those four. I haven't linked them, but you can easily thegoogle.com them if you want to read their oh-so-boring scopes. I hope you find the titles as entertaining as I do. (For those of you not in the know, if a title is followed by a single letter, like Materials Science and Engineering B, it usually means that the old journal had to split as the topics became more specialized.)

Acta Materialia
Advanced Engineering Materials
Advanced Functional Materials
Advanced Materials (apparently different)
Applied Organometallic Chemistry
Applied Physics A
Applied Physics Letters
Applied Surface Science
Chemical Vapor Deposition
Chemistry of Materials
Journal of Alloys and Compounds
Journal of the American Chemical Society
Journal of Applied Physics
Journal of Electronic Materials
Journal of Materials Research
Journal of Materials Science
Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics
Journal of Materials Science Letters (they're all different, apparently)
Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A
Materials Chemistry and Physics
Materials Letters
Materials Science and Engineering B
Materials Today (seeing a trend here?)
Organometallics
physica status solidi (a)
Scripta Materialia
Surface and Coatings Technology
Vacuum

Also, I hope to get some collaboration with someone in physics on some magnetic properties of my stuff and get my name on a paper in some magnetism-centric journal, because physics is even nerdier than materials science.

Go ahead and list your favorite journals or titles in the comments!


*Note that Ariane's schedule, however, has not been destroyed. Actually, if anything, Lenny has simplified hers. It's somthing like this:
9 am - 5 pm: Be awake; feed, burp, and change baby as needed
5 pm - 9 am: Be awake; feed, burp, and change baby as needed