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== History ==

Copernicus agreed to publish the journal because the editors claimed that the its aim would be "to publish articles about patterns recognized in the full spectrum of physical disciplines rather than to focus on climate-research-related topics."<ref name=SI/> Concerns regarding the journal's [[peer-review]] process were first raised in July 2013 by [[Jeffrey Beall]], an American librarian and critic of [[predatory open access publishing]]. Beall wrote on his blog that Ouadfeul's research has "only been cited a couple times," and went on to accuse him of self-plagiarizing from a book he had written in 2012, entitled "Wavelet Transforms and Their Recent Applications in Biology and Geoscience." Beall concluded that "This is not a good start for a journal, and the publisher ought to be concerned and take action."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://scholarlyoa.com/2013/07/16/recognizing-a-pattern-of-problems-in-pattern-recognition-in-physics/ |title=Recognizing a Pattern of Problems in "Pattern Recognition in Physics" |work=Scholarlyoa.com |date=16 July 2013 |accessdate=11 February 2014 |author=Beall, Jeffrey}}</ref>

After a special issue of the journal was published in December 2013, which contained a paper in which the authors said they "doubt the continued, even accelerated, warming as claimed by the IPCC project,"<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.pattern-recogn-phys.net/1/205/2013/prp-1-205-2013.pdf |title=General conclusions regarding the planetary–solar–terrestrial interaction |author=Mörner, Nils-Axel |journal=Pattern Recognition in Physics |date=December 2013 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=205–206}}</ref> managing director Martin Rasmussen expressed concern regarding this journal; he also said that "the editors selected the referees on a nepotistic basis, which we regard as malpractice in scientific publishing."<ref name=SI>{{cite web |url=http://news.sciencemag.org/physics/2014/01/alleging-malpractice-climate-skeptic-papers-publisher-kills-journal |title=Alleging 'Malpractice' With Climate Skeptic Papers, Publisher Kills Journal |work=[[Science Insider]] |date=17 January 2014 |accessdate=11 February 2014 |author=Stokstad, Erik}}</ref> On January 17, 2014, Copernicus Publications announced that they were terminating the journal, citing both the statement that questioned the IPCC's prediction of continued global warming and the "nepotistic" appointing of similarly-minded scientists to the journal's editorial board.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/01/20/was-a-scientific-journal-canned-for-disagreeing-with-the-ipcc/ |title=Was a scientific journal canned for disagreeing with the IPCC? |work=[[The Washington Post]] |date=20 January 2014 |accessdate=11 February 2014 |author=Adler, Jonathan H.}}</ref>