Zeitschrift für Geologische Wissenschaften

The Zeitschrift für Geologische Wissenschaften (English: Journal for the Geological Sciences) is a peer-reviewed German scientific journal established in 1973, that publishes preferably original papers in German and English dealing with geology and related sub-disciplines. Since 2005 the journal has been published bimonthly by the Verlag für Geowissenschaften Berlin. The journal was formerly an official periodical of the national East German Gesellschaft für Geologische Wissenschaften, the East German geological sciences society, and was published by the scientific and academic publishing house Akademie Verlag. The journal was regarded as the most important geological sciences periodical in East Germany with an international reputation.[1][2] The journal is indexed in: GeoRef, Chemical Abstracts Service, and Geoline.

Zeitschrift für Geologische Wissenschaften
DisciplineGeology, biogeology, geochemistry, paleontology
LanguageEnglish, German
Edited byUlrich Wutzke
Publication details
History1973-present
Publisher
FrequencyBimonthly
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Z. Geol. Wiss.
Indexing
CODENZGWSA7
ISSN0303-4534
LCCN74-640867
OCLC no.1791558
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Journal contents and structure

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The journal publishes articles in the following categories:

  • Articles, longer scientific reports of national or international interest
  • Short Communications used for rapid publication of preliminary scientific results, finding information, or descriptions of outcrops
  • Discussions on papers previously published in the journal

References

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  1. ^ Ehmke, Gerhard (1996). "Geologische Zeitschriften in Ostdeutschland (1945 bis heute) = Geological Journals in Eastern Germany (1945 to the present)" (PDF). In Tillfried Cernajsek; Lieselotte Jontes; Peter Schmidt (eds.). Das kulturelle Erbe geowissenschaftlicher und montanwissenschaftlicher Bibliotheken: internationales Symposium, 1993, Freiberg, Sachsen, Deutschland [=Cultural heritage collected in libraries of geoscience, mining, and metallurgy: international symposium, 1993, Freiberg, Saxony, Germany]. Berichte der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, Bd. 35. Vienna: Geologische Bundesanstalt. p. 99. ISSN 1017-8880. OCLC 36081427.
  2. ^ Hartmann, Olaf; Martin Guntau; Werner Pälchen (2007). "Editorial" (PDF). In Olaf Hartmann; Martin Guntau; Werner Pälchen (eds.). Zur Geschichte der Geowissenschaften in der DDR. Schriftenreihe für Geowissenschaften, No. 16. Ostklüne, Usedom, Germany: Verlag Störr. pp. 7–10. ISBN 978-3-937040-15-8. OCLC 240235366.