Current Science (India) scientific journal publishes many LENR article

The new issue of Current Science, an Indian peer reviewed scientific journal open a special section on Low Energy Nuclear Reactions, and propose already many reference articles, reviews, in the domain.
This is an historical moment, and it is in india.

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22passi have gathered the abstract of the 33 Articles
http://22passi.blogspot.nl/201…cenerentola-della_24.html

the list is fascinating and show a good coverage of the subjects.
There are many gems in those articles... timer bombs.

There is a need for recognized peer reviewed mainstream LENR journal.
JCMNS have tried to enter that domain but was flagged fringe... maybe it can change ?

If India his interested, Current Science have vocation to became a local reference journal...
to become the world reference journal, there will be a battle when LENR is recognized...
Naturwissenschaften, JCMNS, Journal of electroanalythical chemistry...
the battle will be fierce

Abd ul Rahman Lomax on nVortex explain how happened the review of his paper, and it was classic, docn by open skeptic who ordered some change as it happens normally...
There is a copy of this message there:
http://rmforall.blogspot.fr/20…ld-fusion-experiment.html

Inside you find two important informations, to raise credibility of the work.

First the journal is a journal linked to the Indian Academy of science:

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Current Science is a multidisciplinary journal established in 1932, published by the Current Science Association in collaboration with the Indian Academy of Sciences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Academy_of_Sciences

and on the review process, of his paper: "Replicable cold fusion experiment: heat/helium ratio"
Abd explain the process was normal, done by non LENR expert

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Last year, the editors of the section solicited papers from
researchers in the field of LENR.
These papers went through two reviews, first by the special section editors and then, if the editors decided to forward the paper, by a normal peer reviewer
assigned by Current Science.

The anonymous reviewer of my paper was familiar with physics and not with cold fusion, and was skeptical at first.
Yes, I modified my paper extensively in response to his critique and it is, no doubt,
better for it.
Apparently, he was convinced, he gave a glowing recommendation for publication.

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Finally he recommande the paper of mcKubre on the state of scientific proof:

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There are some very good papers in this collection, and others that are brief reports on activity in various nations or organizations.

I specially recommend McKubre's paper,
"Cold fusion: comments on the state of scientific proof"

But there are *many* excellent papers.
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This looks very mainstream. Something is changing, and this is now public.

An indian Article refers top that publication in Current Science
http://www.daijiworld.com/news…2700#.VP8DPdcprZ4.twitter

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Cold fusion is real, scientists claim
By Killugudi Jayaraman

Bengaluru, March 10 (IANS): Cold fusion, a revolutionary source of energy -- discovered 25 years ago but was cold-shouldered by mainstream physicists -- is now staging a comeback thanks to researchers who doggedly pursued the science behind it.

In a set of 34 peer-reviewed articles published recently in the journal "Current Science", nuclear scientists from a dozen nations including India, the US, China, Japan and France report that cold fusion was real and should be taken seriously.

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Infinite Energy publish an article on the story behing that publication
http://www.infinite-energy.com…s/pdfs/CurrentScience.pdf

Cold Fusion Now publish another article
http://coldfusionnow.org/curre…-indian-interest-in-lenr/
about the BARC work on cold fusion, why it slowed down, and recent interest raised by Current Science publication.

yes it seems...

In a way it is tragic for all I prepare currently.. It was my best reference

It was a technical problem.
Mahadeva Srinivasan relayed to Current Science team who corrected...

No conspiracy.

Among the controversies, Sylvie Coyaud of occasapiens disinformation agency, try to spread FUD about the peer review process.

What Abd ul-Rahman Lomax explained is confirmed by multiple scientists, and by recent article of Infinite Energy :
http://www.infinite-energy.com…s/pdfs/CurrentScience.pdf

The process was started by selecting author by non-indian scientist experienced in LENR, and this was then reviewed by Indian scientist with no experience in LENR (nearly no Indian scientists have that experience today, beside Mahadeva Srinivasan). Some delay to publish was induced by reviewer asking for much more details, as one can expect. Current science keep the archive of the exchanges as usual.

Here is the key statements about the peer review process, in Infinite Energy article.

Quote from Christy L. Frazier

At a regular monthly meeting of the Current Science Editorial Board, Prof. R. Srinivasan presented the list of potential contributors to the proposed special section on LENR.

While the Board was impressed by the list of contributors, he said that, “The matter was discussed at length, especially on the lack of interest in this field by a large community of physicists, and finally a decision was made to bring out the special section.”

He noted that the present Editorial Board has no members who have worked in the LENR field, “But they consist of scientists who teach nuclear reactions in premier institutions in India.

They are informed of the work going on in the field by reputable scientists. It is for this reason it was considered useful to have the special section guest edited by Dr. M. Srinivasan and Dr. Andrew Meulenberg, two scientists who have actually worked in this field and are passionate about it.”

One contributor, Dr. David Nagel of The George Washington University, said of the selection of the co-editors, “It is very appropriate that the leadership of the special section included an experienced experimentalist and a leading theoretician in the field.”

Thirty of the papers (not including the Preface written by the guest editors and three papers on the history of cold fusion in selected countries) were peer-reviewed by an Indian reviewer and scientists from the international LENR community.

Rigorous reviews of papers submitted to Current Science is one of the strengths of the journal.

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I hope to make a post on that, with more statements, to answer the merchants of FUD.