{"id":2801,"date":"2010-08-11T12:07:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T11:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=2801"},"modified":"2010-08-16T10:02:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T09:02:01","slug":"academic-journals-that-contain-easier-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=2801","title":{"rendered":"Academic journals that contain easier material"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back when I was doing my own research (my field was photonic crystals<\/a>), I read a lot of research articles in journals such as Physical Review B<\/a>, Applied Optics<\/a> and The Journal of the Optical Society of America B<\/a>.\u00a0 These journals represent the state of the art in their respective fields and if you are not a full time researcher then you will probably find many of their articles difficult to really<\/strong> get into.\u00a0 When I say ‘really get into’ I mean ‘understand well enough that you could reproduce or develop their results if you wanted to’.<\/p>\n

These days I am not a full-time researcher (although I do assist many of them on a regular basis) but I still like to read journal articles.\u00a0 The type of journal I read, however, has changed rather a lot since I’m doing it for fun and personal interest rather than for my salary.\u00a0 I sometimes take what I read in these articles and turn them into blog posts<\/a> and\/or Wolfram Demonstrations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s a list of some of my favourites<\/p>\n