GEOPHYSICS
DisciplineGeophysics
LanguageEnglish
Edited byDr. Evert Slob
Publication details
History1936–present
Publisher
FrequencyBi-monthly
1.759 (2013)
Indexing
CODENGEO
ISSN0016-8033 (print)
1942-2156 (web)
LCCN86642786
OCLC no.1570724
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GEOPHYSICS is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. The current editor-in-chief is Dr. Evert Slob.

History

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GEOPHYSICS, published by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) since 1936, is an archival journal encompassing all aspects of research, exploration, and education in applied geophysics. Geophysics papers, drawn from industry and academia, undergo a rigorous peer-review process to validate the described methods and conclusions and ensure the highest editorial and production quality.

The PDF format of each GEOPHYSICS paper is the official version of record. According to the Science Edition of Thomson Reuters' Journal Citation Reports, the journal's 2013 impact factor is 1.759, and its immediacy index is 0.345.

Aims and scopes

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GEOPHYSICS editors strongly encourage the use of real data, including actual case histories, to highlight current technology and tutorials to stimulate ideas. Some issues feature a section of solicited papers on a particular subject of current interest. Recent special sections focused on seismic anisotropy, subsalt exploration and development, and microseismic monitoring. Its articles, generally more than 275 per year in six issues, cover the entire spectrum of geophysical methods, including seismology, potential fields, electromagnetics, and borehole measurements. Geophysics provides theoretical and mathematical tools needed to reproduce depicted work, encouraging further development and research.

Anisotropy, borehole geophysics and rock properties, electrical and electromagnetic methods, engineering and environmental geophysics, geophysical software and algorithms, gravity exploration methods, ground-penetrating radar, interdisciplinary studies, magnetic exploration methods, mining geophysics, passive seismic methods, poroelasticity, reservoir geophysics, seismic amplitude interpretation, seismic attributes and pattern recognition, seismic data acquisition, seismic interferometry, seismic inversion, seismic migration, seismic modeling and wave propagation, seismic velocity/statics, and signal processing.

Notable articles

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The three most highly cited articles published in Reviews of Geophysics are:[1]

  1. Mellor, G. L.; Yamada, T. (1982). "Development of a turbulence closure-model for geophysical fluid problems". Reviews of Geophysics. 20 (4): 851–875. Bibcode:1982RvGSP..20..851M. doi:10.1029/RG020i004p00851.
  2. Large, W. G.; McWilliams, J. C.; Doney, S. C. (1994). "Oceanic vertical mixing—A review and a model with a nonlocal boundary-ayer parameterization". Reviews of Geophysics. 32 (4): 363–403. Bibcode:1994RvGeo..32..363L. doi:10.1029/94RG01872.
  3. Rudnick, R. L.; Fountain, D. M. (1995). "Nature and composition of the continental-crust—a lower crustal perspective". Reviews of Geophysics. 33 (3): 267–309. Bibcode:1995RvGeo..33..267R. doi:10.1029/95RG01302.

Abstracting and indexing

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The journal is abstracted and indexed in:[2]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2011 impact factor of 12.364, ranking it 2nd out of 76 journals in the category "Geochemistry & Geophysics".[3]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Reviews of Geophysics". 2013 Science Citation Index Expanded. Web of Science. Thomson Reuters. 2013. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  2. ^ "Reviews of Geophysics". Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
  3. ^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Geochemistry & Geophysics". 2011 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2013. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)
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