The following is a partial list of scientific journals. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past. The list given here is far from exhaustive, only containing some of the most influential, currently publishing journals in each field. As a rule of thumb, each field should be represented by less than ten positions, chosen by their impact factors and other ratings. The term "autapse" was first coined in 1972 by Van der Loos and Glaser, who observed them in Golgi preparations of the rabbit occipital cortex while originally conducting a quantitative analysis of rabbit neocortex circuitry Also in the 1970s, autapses have been described in dog and rat cerebral cortex monkey neostriatum, and cat spinal cord