Polar Science is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research related to the polar regions of the Earth and other planets.[1] It is published by Elsevier on behalf of the National Institute of Polar Research (Japan). It covers a wide range of fields, including atmospheric science, oceanography, glaciology and environmental science. The editor-in-chief is Takashi Yamanouchi (National Institute of Polar Research and Sōkendai).

Polar Science
DisciplinePolar regions of Earth
LanguageEnglish
Edited byTakashi Yamanouchi
Publication details
History2007-present
Publisher
FrequencyQuarterly
Hybrid
1.927 (2020)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Polar Sci.
Indexing
ISSN1873-9652
LCCN2008206457
OCLC no.655039871
Links

The journal is hybrid open access. By paying a fee, authors can choose to make their papers open access at the time of publication. All papers that are over 24 months old are freely available to the community via ScienceDirect.

Abstracting and indexing

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The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, EBSCOhost, GEOBASE, GeoRef, ProQuest and Referativnyi Zhurnal (VINITI Database RAS).[2] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 1.927.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Polar Science. Elsevier. Retrieved 2016-12-12.
  2. ^ "Polar Science Abstracting and Indexing". Elsevier. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  3. ^ "Polar Science". 2020 Journal Citation Reports. Clarivate Analytics. 2021.
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