Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences

Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences (English: Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences), or simply Comptes rendus, is a French scientific journal that has been published since 1835. It is the proceedings of the French Academy of Sciences. It is currently split into seven sections, published on behalf of the Academy by Elsevier: Mathématique, Mécanique, Physique, Géoscience, Palévol, Chimie, and Biologies. The journal has had a complicated naming history, with several name changes and splits over the years. Comptes rendus was initially established in 1835 as Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des Sciences. It began as an alternative publication pathway for more prompt publication than the Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences, which had been published since 1666. The Mémoires, which continued to be published alongside the Comptes rendus throughout the nineteenth century, had a publication cycle which resulted in memoirs being published years after they had been presented to the Academy. Some academicians continued to publish in the Mémoires because of the strict page limits in the Comptes rendus. After 1965 this title was split into five sections: Série A (Sciences mathématiques) – mathematics Série B (Sciences physiques) – physics and geosciences Série C (Sciences chimiques) – chemistry Série D (Sciences naturelles) – life sciences Vie académique – academy notices and miscellanea (between 1968 and 1970, and again between 1979 and 1983) Series A and B were published together in one volume except in 1974. The areas were rearranged as follows: Série I - (Sciences Mathématiques) - mathematics Série II (Mécanique-physique, Chimie, Sciences de l'univers, Sciences de la Terre) - physics, chemistry, astronomy and geosciences Série III - (Sciences de la vie) - life sciences Vie académique – academy notices and miscellanea (the last 3 volumes of the second edition, between 1981 and 1983) Vie des sciences – A renamed Vie académique (from 1984 to 1996) These publications remained the same: Série I (Sciences mathématiques) – mathematics Série III (Sciences de la Vie) – life sciences Vie des sciences – A renamed Vie académique (until 1996) The areas published in Série II were slowly split into other publications in ways that caused some confusion.