There are thousands of academic and scholarly journals out there, with more being launched every minute. Science writers are always on the lookout for more, no matter how obscure, for some gem that everyone else will have missed.

The Nature Publishing Group publishes quite a few academic journals, and I well remember a few years ago leafing through one of them to see if anything stood out.

Even now, new journals continue to hit my desk. I was most taken with this one, which made quite an impression by virtue of its exuberance, its raw power, and its punctuality -

That, and the sheer wallop of its pagination (count ‘em); the fact that the editor claims to be Ted Nugent – and the inclusion of a truly fabulous ‘lifestyle supplement’ which taste (and potential libel) prevents my airing. Rock, and moreover, roll.