If you walk down the street where I live, in Stratford-upon-Avon, and cross the bridge over the canal, you come to the house where Shakespeare was born. I wondered what he would think of our journal, if he were around today. I suspect he would see the bigger picture …
Editor: How are you keeping, Will?
Will: ‘We have seen better days.’
(Timon of Athens, Act 4, Scene 2)
Editor: The new impact factors are out, did you hear?
Will: ‘This is very midsummer madness.’
(Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 4)
Editor: APX got 8.526.
Will: ‘…such stuff as dreams are made on…’
(The Tempest, Act 4, Scene 1)
Editor: Yes, we were pretty happy about it
Will: ‘All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.’
(As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7)
Editor: It is gold open access, you know? Good for science across the world.
Will: ‘All that glisters is not gold’
(The Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Scene 7)
Editor: We’re in the top 10 journals in Multidisciplinary Physics.
Will: ‘Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.’
(Henry IV, Part 2, Act 3, Scene 1)
Editor: We need to double down on our efforts then?
Will: ‘Nothing will come of nothing.’
(King Lear, Act 1, Scene 1)
Editor: Very wise, Will. Any more thoughts for us?
Will: ‘To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.’
(Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3)
Editor: Thanks for that, Will – great advice, as usual!
Richard E Palmer
Editor-in-Chief
July, 2022