Meteoritics & Planetary Science is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Meteoritical Society. It specialises in the fields of meteoritics and planetary science.

Meteoritics & Planetary Science
DisciplinePlanetary science
LanguageEnglish
Edited byA.J. Timothy Jull
Publication details
Former name(s)
Meteoritics
History1953-present
Publisher
FrequencyMonthly
Hybrid
2.890 (2021)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Meteorit. Planet. Sci.
Indexing
ISSN1086-9379 (print)
1945-5100 (web)
LCCN96655038
OCLC no.34046030
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The journal was established as Meteoritics in 1953, adopting its current name when the scope was broadened in 1996. Since January 1, 2003, the editor-in-chief is A.J. Timothy Jull (Arizona Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory).

History

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The journal was established in 1953 as the successor of the Notes and Contributions that were published on behalf of the Meteoritical Society in Popular Astronomy, from 1933 to 1951.[1] Initially titled Meteoritics, with the 1996 January issue the journal became Meteoritics and Planetary Science.[2]

Scope

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Coverage encompasses planets, natural satellites, interplanetary dust, interstellar medium, lunar samples, meteors, meteorites, asteroids, comets, craters, and tektites and comes from multiple disciplines, such as astronomy, astrophysics, physics, geophysics, chemistry, isotope geochemistry, mineralogy, Earth science, geology, or biology

The journal publishes original research papers, invited reviews, editorials, and book reviews.

Abstracting and indexing

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Meteoritics & Planetary Science is indexed and abstracted in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 2.863, ranking it 37h out of 85 journals in the category "Geochemistry & Geophysics".[3]

References

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  1. ^ American Astronomical Society (1954). "Meteoritics. The journal of the Meteoritical Society and the Institute of Meteoritics of the University of New Mexico". Astronomical Journal. 59: 272. Bibcode:1954AJ.....59R.272.. doi:10.1086/107081.
  2. ^ Sears, Derek (November 1995). "Meteoritics". Meteoritics. 30 (6): 619–619. doi:10.1111/j.1945-5100.1995.tb01156.x.
  3. ^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Geochemistry & Geophysics". 2011 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2012.
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