Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences (English: Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences), or simply Comptes rendus, is a French scientific journal 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 until 2020 by Elsevier: Mathématique, Mécanique, Physique, Géoscience, Palévol, Chimie, and Biologies. As of 2020, the Comptes Rendus journals are published by the Academy with a diamond open access model.[1]
| Discipline | Multidisciplinary |
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| Language | English, French |
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| History | 1835–present |
| Publisher | French Academy of Sciences (France) |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | C. R. Acad. Sci. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus | |
| ISSN | 0001-4036 |
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The journal has had 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.[2] 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.[3]
After 1965 this title was split into five sections:
Series A and B were published together in one volume except in 1974.
The areas were rearranged as follows:
These publications remained the same:
The areas published in Série II were slowly split into other publications in ways that caused some confusion.
In 1994, Série II, which covered physics, chemistry, astronomy and geosciences, was replaced by Série IIA and Série IIB. Série IIA was exclusive to geosciences, and Série IIB covered chemistry and astronomy and the now-distinct mechanics and physics.
In 1998, Série IIB covered mechanics, physics and astronomy; chemistry got its separate publication, Série IIC.
In 2000, Série IIB became dedicated exclusively to mechanics in May. Astronomy got redefined as astrophysics, which along with physics was covered by the new Série IV. Série IV began publishing in March; however, Séries IIB published two more issues on physics and astrophysics in April and May before starting the new run.
The present naming and subject assignment was established in 2002:
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The Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences publications are available through the France National Library[4] as part of its free online library and archive of other historical documents and works of art, Gallica.[5] The publications available online are:
All publications from 1997 to 2019 were published commercially by Elsevier.[6] From 2020 on, the Comptes Rendus Palevol have been published by the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris) for the Académie des Sciences. All other series of the Comptes Rendus of the Acamémie des Sciences have been published (from 2020 on) by Mersenne under a Diamond Open Access model.