The United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is an “honorific society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare”. Set up by none other than Abraham Lincoln himself, the academy publishes a prestigious scientific journal, called the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, better known as just “PNAS” and available at www.pnas.org. This publication is part of a supposedly elite club of high-profile journals – Nature, Science and PNAS (NSPNAS) – that many scientists from all around the world, strive to publish in. Now, there are those that think the world would be a better place if we concentrated on what scientists have to say, rather than where they say it. But currently, life doesn’t always work that way. Better journals, usually tend to have better reviewers and these are often the most important places to publish results. (more…)
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