Symmetry – An International and Interdisciplinary Scientific Open Access Journal
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Symmetry 2009, 1(1), 1-2; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym1010001
Submission received: 4 June 2009
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Published: 5 June 2009
As the publisher of MDPI journals, I am pleased to launch Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994), an international and interdisciplinary open access scientific journal.
Twenty years ago, a journal entitled Symmetry – An Interdisciplinary and International Journal was launched by VCH Publishers, Inc. in New York, with Professor Istvan Hargittai as Editor-in-Chief. I submitted a paper which was processed by Professor Sven J. Cyvin from The University of Trondheim – The Norwegian Institute of Technology. The paper was accepted and scheduled for publication in the printed issue 4 of volume 1, 1990. I still keep a copy of the galley proofs. However, the publication of this journal was terminated after just the release of the first issue of volume 1, and this paper was finally published elsewhere [1].
Symmetry related topics have been always my research interest [2,3,4]. In the journal Entropy [5], several symmetry related papers and several book reviews on symmetry related books [6,7,8] have been published and a special issue “Symmetry and Entropy” was published [9] with Professor Joe Rosen [10,11] serving as the Guest Editor. We are extremely pleased to be able to finally launch this journal after many years of careful planning.
With the strong leadership of active scholars, including noted physicists and chemists on the editorial board, I firmly believe that this journal will become a leading forum for related studies.
References and Notes
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- Entropy. journal website (since 2008): https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy.
- Lin, S.-K. Book Review: Symmetry in Science: An Introduction to the General Theory. By Joseph Rosen. Springer Verlag: New York. 1996. 234 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0-387-94836-8. Entropy 1999, 1, 53–54. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
- Lin, S.-K. Book Review: In Our Own Image: Personal Symmetry in Discovery. By Istvan Hargittai ([email protected], Budapest Technical University, Hungary) and Magdolna Hargittai (Hungary). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: New York. February 2000, Hardbound. 242 pp. EUR 52.50 / USD 49.95 / GBP 34. ISBN 0-306-46091-2. Entropy 2001, 3, 298–299. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
- Lin, S.-K. Book Review: Symmetry Rules: How Science and Nature Are Founded on Symmetry. By Joe Rosen. Springer: Berlin. 2008, XIV, 305 p. 86 illus., Hardcover. CHF 70. ISBN: 978-3-540-75972-0. Entropy 2008, 10(2), 55–57. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
- The special issue “Symmetry and Entropy” was guest edited by Dr. Joe Rosen. website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/symmetry_entropy.
- Rosen, J. The Symmetry Principle. Entropy 2005, 7, 308–313. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
- Rosen, J. Commentary: Symmetry at the Foundation of Science and Nature. Symmetry 2009, 1, 3–9. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
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