Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Is this really true?

"Two peer-review journals were established that focused primarily on stereology – Journal of Microscopy and Acta Stereologica (immediately Image Analysis & Stereology)."

That is the quote I saw. Well, I thought that the Journal of Microscopy was the Journal from the Royal Microscopy Society. The journal was renamed. The volume numbers were not changed. Back in the 1975 the volume numbers were 100, 101, and 102. So that's 3 volumes per year and there are 100 volumes. It sure seems that 33 years or more of publication occurred before 1975. That clearly puts the Journal of Microscopy's origin before the early 1960s when the term stereology was coined.

The Journal of Microscopy was not established to disseminate information on stereology.

Apparently, the article being tossed around the internet lately needs a substantial revision. Even the basics are wrong.