Compositionality: Now Open For Submissions by John Baez.
Our new journal Compositionality is now open for submissions!
It’s an open-access journal for research using compositional ideas, most notably of a category-theoretic origin, in any discipline. Topics may concern foundational structures, an organizing principle, or a powerful tool. Example areas include but are not limited to: computation, logic, physics, chemistry, engineering, linguistics, and cognition.
Compositionality is free of cost for both readers and authors.
After looking at the editorial policies, there is one burning question:
Can authors be listed as anonymous?
I ask because a friend of a friend recently confessed to using category theory on a medical domain ontology and concealed that fact from his users. My friend was cautioned to never reveal the use of category theory to those users.
Publications in Compositionality could show up in casual search results, tipping off users on the use of category theory.
A useful and productive tool could suddenly turn opaque and obscure.
The new journal sounds great but needs to be tweaked to hide authors from casual searches on the Internet. (Is this akin to the EU right to be forgotten? A right to not be found?)
Enjoy!
Looking forward to the first issue!