Improvement of Quality in Publication of Experimental Thermophysical Property Data: Challenges, Assessment Tools, Global Implementation, and Online Support
This article describes a 10-year cooperative effort between the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and five major journals in the field of thermophysical and thermochemical properties to improve the quality of published reports of experimental data. The journals are Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, Fluid Phase Equilibria, Thermochimica Acta, and International Journal of Thermophysics. The history of this unique cooperation is outlined, together with an overview of software tools and procedures that have been developed and implemented to aid authors, editors, and reviewers at all stages of the publication process, including experiment planning. Both successes and failures are highlighted. The procedures are now well established and are designed to yield maximum benefit to all stakeholders (authors, editors, reviewers, publishers, readers, data users, etc.) through the establishment of procedures and support tools that efficiently serv...
Authors:
Robert D. Chirico; Michael Frenkel; Joseph W. Magee; Vladimir Diky; Chris D. Muzny; Andrei F. Kazakov; Kenneth Kroenlein; Ilmutdin Abdulagatov; Gary R. Hardin; William E. Acree, Jr.; Joan F. Brenneke; Paul L. Brown; Peter T. Cummings; Theo W. de Loos; Daniel G. Friend; Anthony R. H. Goodwin; Lee D. Hansen; William M. Haynes; Nobuyoshi Koga; Andreas Mandelis; Kenneth N. Marsh; Paul M. Mathias; Clare McCabe; John P. O’Connell; Agilio Pádua; Vicente Rives; Christoph Schick; J. P. Martin Trusler; Sergey Vyazovkin; Ron D. Weir; Jiangtao Wu
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