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Journals in Earth and planetary sciences

Elsevier's Earth and Planetary Sciences collection brings together pioneering research on the complexities of our planet and beyond. Covering topics from Earth's structural dynamics and ecosystems to planetary exploration, these titles support advancements in geoscience, environmental science, and space studies, offering essential insights for researchers, professionals, and students.

  • Journal of South American Earth Sciences

    • ISSN: 0895-9811
    The Journal publishes high quality, peer-reviewed scientific papers pertaining to the South American region including Mexico, Central America, The Caribbean and The Antarctic Peninsula and they must have a regional appeal and should present work of a more than local significance. Geological research papers dealing with the regional geology and basin analyses of South American cratons and mobile belts, within the following research fields, will be considered:Economic geology, metallogenesis and hydrocarbon genesis and reservoirsGeophysics... geochemistry, volcanology, igneous and metamorphic petrologyTectonics, neo- and seismotectonics, geodynamic modelling, structure and basin evolutionGeomorpholo... hydrology, watershed, geological hazards, environmental geologyStratigraphy and sedimentologyPaleont... paleoecology, paleoclimatology and Quaternary geologyPapers must have international appeal and should present work of a more regional versus local significance and deal with well-identified and justified scientific questions. Dedicated technical papers, analytical and/or exploration reports must be avoided. Papers on applied geology should preferably be linked to such core disciplines and must be addressed to a more general geoscientific audience.
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  • Ocean & Coastal Management

    • ISSN: 0964-5691
    Ocean & Coastal Management is the leading international journal dedicated to the study of all aspects of ocean and coastal management and governance.Ocean & Coastal Management aims to advance management, policy and/or governance scholarship related to the sustainable development and conservation of the world's oceans and coasts.It publishes rigorously peer-reviewed articles on ocean and coastal management and governance from the natural and social sciences, humanities and law, and design professions, and inter-/trans-discipl... and co-designed research.Submissions must engage directly with the ocean and coastal management scholarly literature and apply findings to the international context. Submissions involving robust analysis, development of theory, and improvement of governance and management practices are especially welcome. Locality-specific case studies are discouraged unless they have wider application. Comparative studies (from sub-national to trans-national cases, and other management / policy arenas) are encouraged, as are studies that critically assess management theories, policies, practices, and governance approaches.The journal publishes topics including:Interactio... between ocean and coastal uses and actors in government, the private sector, civil society, local communities, science, and Indigenous Peoples. Bridging the science-policy-pract... interfaces in the ocean and coastal context. The roles of traditional knowledge, local knowledge, and science in ocean and coastal management. Ocean Literacy and Education Institutional change and ocean and coastal management.Resolutio... of multiple-use conflicts; alternative management regimes and institutional arrangements for integrated management of ocean and coastal areas (e.g., national coastal management programmes, Regional Seas programmes); and governance of resources, systems, and activities from the land-sea interface to territorial waters, Exclusive Economic Zones, high seas, and the poles.Developments related to the Law of the Sea Convention and to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), including consideration of legal regimes for the conservation and development of ocean and coastal resources from the shoreline to beyond the limits of national jurisdiction, including emerging Legal and Policy Challenges in the High Seas.International maritime and shipping regulations, policies, and governance under the framework of the United Nations International Maritime Organization (IMO) or the local governments of various countries. Port and shipping operations, management, and governance. Impact of Global Supply Chains on Coastal and Marine Environments.Assessi... and managing environmental impacts due to the development of ocean and coastal areas. Specific shoreline management issues such as coastal protection policies, responses to accelerated sea-level rise, public access, waterfront redevelopment, cultural heritage, public education and participation, port management, estuarine management, marine protected areas, and governing coastal urbanization.Governa... and management of activities like aquaculture, commercial fisheries, offshore mining, shipping and navigation, energy facilities, coast-dependent industries, and tourism, recreational development, and marine conservation and protected areas.Climate change and ocean and coastal management, including adaptation in coastal and marine settings; tackling ocean acidification; Blue Carbon; and climate-resilient development.Ocean and coastal disasters, risk reduction, and resilience building. Vulnerability, sustainable livelihoods, and maritime communities.The Blue Economy and marine governance. Marine spatial planning. Marine ecosystem-based management. Addressing marine plastics and pollution. Technological Innovations in Oceanography and Coastal Management.Politics, democracy, civic engagement, and public decision-making for the ocean and coasts. Historical, cultural, ethical, philosophical, and theoretical considerations relevant to ocean and coastal management. Maritime Security and Surveillance, including piracy, illegal fishing, and maritime boundary disputes.
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  • Minerals Engineering

    • ISSN: 0892-6875
    Minerals Engineering is an international journal devoted to innovation and developments in mineral processing and extractive metallurgy. The journal aims to provide for the rapid publication of topical papers featuring the latest developments in the allied fields of mineral processing and extractive metallurgy. Minerals Engineering welcomes outstanding contributions focused on research and practical (operating) topics including but not limited to:Geometallurgy and process mineralogy Ore pretreatment and comminutionPhysical separation methods, such as sorting, gravity, magnetic, electrostatic separation, dewateringFlotation (including mineral surface chemistry, reagents, bubble-particle interactions, cell hydrodynamics)Chemic... methods, such as pyro-, bio-, hydro-, and electro-metallurgyEq... design and optimisation in mineral processingModelling, simulation and process control in mineral processingMachine learning, artificial intelligence and digital twins in mineral processingAnalytical techniques in mineral processingApplicatio... of physical and chemical methods in mineral processing for mineral/metal recyclingEnvironment... and industrial mineral materialsEnvironment... issues, such as process water management, mine tailings treatment and disposalThe journal publishes a series of Special Issues linked to MEI Conferences (https://www.min-eng...
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  • Atmospheric Research

    • ISSN: 0169-8095
    Clouds - Precipitation - Aerosols - Radiation - Climatology, Weather ModificationThe journal publishes scientific papers (research papers, review articles, letters and notes) dealing with the part of the atmosphere where meteorological events occur. Attention is given to all processes extending from the earth surface to the tropopause, but special emphasis continues to be devoted to the physics of clouds, mesoscale meteorology and air pollution, i.e. atmospheric aerosols; microphysical processes; cloud dynamics and thermodynamics; numerical simulation, climatology, climate change and weather modification.This journal welcomes contributions that support and advance the UN's sustainable development goals, in particular SDG 7 (Affordable and clean energy) and SDG 13 (Climate Action).
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  • Hydrometallurgy

    • ISSN: 0304-386X
    An International Journal devoted to all aspects of the Aqueous Processing of MetalsHydrometallurg... aims to compile studies on novel processes, process design, chemistry, modelling, control, economics and interfaces between unit operations, and to provide a forum for discussions on case histories and operational difficulties.Topics covered include: leaching of metal values by chemical reagents or bacterial action at ambient or elevated pressures and temperatures; separation of solids from leach liquors; removal of impurities and recovery of metal values by precipitation, ion exchange, solvent extraction, gaseous reduction, cementation, electro-winning and electro-refining; pre-treatment of ores by roasting or chemical treatments such as halogenation or reduction; recycling of reagents and treatment of effluents.
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  • Computers & Geosciences

    • ISSN: 0098-3004
    Computers & Geosciences publishes original, high-impact research at the interface between computing/informatic... and the geosciences. Submissions must make a substantive contribution in both dimensions: (1) an innovative computational, informatics, or software element, and (2) a clear geoscientific contribution addressing a scientific problem of broad interest to the geoscience community.Manuscript... are suitable for the journal only when the computational/inform... component is central to the work and advances the state of the art beyond routine implementation, straightforward application, or incremental adaptation of existing methods. It is expected that code is provided for all scientific research articles.Relevant computational/inform... contributions include, but are not limited to: novel algorithms; computational methods; scientific software; data models; scientific databases and retrieval systems; machine learning and artificial intelligence; inversion and data assimilation frameworks; uncertainty quantification workflows; visualization and human-computer interaction for geoscientific analysis; high-performance, parallel, cloud, or distributed computing; reproducible research infrastructures; and interoperable digital frameworks for geoscientific data and modelling.Relevant geoscientific domains include: geology; geophysics; geochemistry; geomorphology; sedimentology; stratigraphy; palaeontology; tectonics and structural geology; seismology; volcanology; hydrology; hydrogeology; and Earth-system science. Manuscripts centered primarily on generic environmental engineering, routine GIS applications, signal processing, agriculture, ecology, or other topics outside the core geosciences are normally outside the journal’s scope unless the geoscientific contribution is explicit, substantial, and of clear interest to the readership.Code, software, data, and reproducibility requirementsFor any manuscript presenting software, code, workflows, trained models, computational pipelines, or implementation details essential to the results, public access to the corresponding repository is mandatory at submission and required for acceptance. A manuscript will not be accepted for review without a GitHub repository or equivalent public repository that is properly documented and enables evaluation, reuse, and long-term utility to the community.there needs to be a link to the repository in the manuscript and at a minimum, the repository must include:a clear license;a ReadMe file in English with basic usage and installation instructions;documen... of dependencies and computational requirements;suffici... material to reproduce the main results in the paper, or a clear explanation of any justified limitations if data cannot be shared, a dummy model or a synthetic dataset for test cases should be providedhow-to files or tutorials for typical use cases;a user guide describing inputs, outputs, options, and expected behaviour; and for security reasons, a single compacted file is not accepted (e.g. .zip, .rar, .7z)any comments in the code must be in EnglishRepositories that are incomplete, poorly documented, inaccessible, private at the review or acceptance stage, or lacking reproducible examples are grounds for rejection. Manuscripts describing software that is not open source are normally desk rejected.Computers & Geosciences will not consider manuscripts that fall into any of the following categories:geoscienc... studies with no genuine computational or informatics innovation;computer science or informatics papers with no clear and substantive geoscientific contribution;routine application of established methods, software, machine learning models, GIS workflows, or visualization tools to a case study;incremental code implementations of already published methods without a clear methodological or software advance;manuscripts focused mainly on engineering design, operational management, consultancy-style case studies, or site-specific technical problem solving rather than geoscientific insight of broader relevance;papers in which the computational element is peripheral, cosmetic, or limited to software packaging or interface development;purely methodological developments (e.g. geophysics, hydrology) purely analytical developments unless they have significant implications on computational geoscientific problemspure case studies and application examples less they have significant implications on computational geoscientific problemsGUI papers unless the interface itself solves a significant, non-trivial scientific-computing problem;benchmark or comparison papers lacking novelty, reproducibility, or transferable insight;papers whose results cannot be independently evaluated because code, workflow details, trained models, key parameters, or supporting data are unavailable; andmanuscripts generated around black-box tools or proprietary workflows with insufficient transparency for scientific scrutiny.Submissions should make clear, from the title, abstract, and introduction onward, what is new computationally, what is new geoscientifically, and why both matter.Manuscripts better aligned with applied implementation, software deployment, or lower-novelty contributions may be more suitable for the companion journal Applied Computing & Geosciences.
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