My paper with Yo Toda, William Giarè, Emre Özülker, and Eleonora Di Valentino, where we attempt to solve the Hubble tension combining a spatially uniform time-varying electron mass in a non-spatially flat Universe, and the ΛsCDM model, featuring a late-time sign-switching cosmological constant (see this earlier news item), has now officially been published in PDU! The full bibliographic coordinates for the paper are Phys. Dark Univ. 46 (2024) 101676. Here is the link to the paper (which is published Open Access).
Varying electron mass and ΛsCDM paper accepted in PDU!
My paper with Yo Toda, William Giarè, Emre Özülker, and Eleonora Di Valentino, where we attempt to solve the Hubble tension combining a spatially uniform time-varying electron mass in a non-spatially flat Universe, and the ΛsCDM model, featuring a late-time sign-switching cosmological constant (see this earlier news item), has been accepted for publication in PDU! Minor revisions compared to the previous version include a small change to the title, small updates to the figures and tables for consistency, and especially a proper Bayesian evidence-based model comparison analysis. You can read the preprint version of the paper on arXiv: 2407.01173.
New impact factor for Physics of the Dark Universe
Physics of the Dark Universe, the journal for which I am Editor, performed once again very well at the 2024 release of the annual Journal Citation Reports. Our updated impact factor (IF) for 2023 is 5.0 (the number reflects works published in 2021 and 2022, so still before my time)! This number has gone a bit down from our 2022 one, which was 5.5, yet remains high for the standards of the field. In fact, we are competitive with the other top-tier journals in cosmology and high-energy physics, such as PRD (4.6), PLB (4.3), JCAP (5.3), ApJ (4.8), and MNRAS (4.7), whose IFs all fall in the 4.5-5.5 ballpark. Huge thank you to everyone who helped us grow!
New impact factor for Physics of the Dark Universe
The 2023 release of the annual Journal Citation Reports from Clarivate Analytics has now been made public, and with it the updated impact factors (IFs) for several journals. I am thrilled to announce that the journal of which I am Editor, Physics of the Dark Universe, performed extremely well, with a 2022 IF of 5.5! For the full list of IFs, see this document. This confirms once more the high impact of papers published in PDU, which places us at a level comparable to journals such as PRD (5.0), PLB (4.4), JCAP (6.4), ApJ (4.9), and MNRAS (4.8), just to mention a few. Please consider submitting your next paper to PDU!
Physics of the Dark Universe
It’s a great honor to announce that today I start a new role as Editor of Physics of the Dark Universe, one of the leading journals in cosmology and astroparticle physics. The Editor-in-Chief is Stefano Profumo, and other fellow Editors are Hong-Jian He and Ryan Foley. The journal has undergone a significant editorial reshuffle, with only Stefano left from the previous generation, whereas I basically replace Alessandra Silvestri and Luca Amendola (whom I thank for indicating me as their heir!). Interestingly, the journal has always been very “Italian”, with previous editors besides Alessandra and Luca including Licia Verde, Gianfranco Bertone, and Filippo Vernizzi, but I will actually be the first Italy-based Italian editor. Looking forward to this new adventure!