Last Updated on February 2, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
If we would ask an engineer or a seller for physiological sensors, he eventually would recommend us devices like the Firstbeat Body Guard for this purpose.
But was strikes us about the Firstbeat Body Guard is that for instance the validation paper about the body guard is only published as a white paper. And this white paper is not published in a journal. The paper can be downloaded from Firstbeat, and is not peer-reviewed in a high quality scientific journal.
Also our review about consumer grade sports sensors, which we published in journal is a white paper, inspired by the white paper for the First beat body guard.
We have choosen to publish it in this form in our journal, since we think, it is not worth it to try to publish it somewhere else. To do that would take a big effort. An effort from which we think it is not worth doing it, also for other people.
The journal of the Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS) is a high quality Swiss journal. We have made a big effort that it is high quality. Other people eventually would have published things we have published in our journal in other journals which are peer-reviewed, but we did not do this.
This is because it was not worth it for us personally to do this. It is not worth it for us personally to publish papers in journals like for instance Sensors at the present movement.
The personal website of Peter Gamma which is a private project has the character of a journal, although this was not our intention. And we do not have to goal to become a journal where people can submit papers so that they are published in our journal.