Nature Geoscience
Encyclopedia
Nature Geoscience is a monthly, peer reviewed, scientific journal
Scientific journal
In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past...

 published by Nature Publishing Group
Nature Publishing Group
Nature Publishing Group is an international publishing company that publishes academic journals, online databases, and services across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences and clinical medicine...

. The Chief Editor is Heike Langenberg. The first issue was published in January 2008.

Scope

The focus of this journal is all theoretical research
Theory
The English word theory was derived from a technical term in Ancient Greek philosophy. The word theoria, , meant "a looking at, viewing, beholding", and referring to contemplation or speculation, as opposed to action...

, model
Conceptual model
In the most general sense, a model is anything used in any way to represent anything else. Some models are physical objects, for instance, a toy model which may be assembled, and may even be made to work like the object it represents. They are used to help us know and understand the subject matter...

ling, and field work, pertaining to the earth sciences. Significant, related work in other fields that are applicable to this journal's focus are also published.

Broad topical coverage includes Atmospheric science, Geology, Geophysics, Climate science, Oceanography, Palaeontology, and the Space sciences.

Abstracting and indexing

This journal is indexed by the following services:
  • CAB Abstracts
  • Chemical Abstracts Service
    Chemical Abstracts Service
    Chemical Abstracts is a periodical index that provides summaries and indexes of disclosures in recently published scientific documents. Approximately 8,000 journals, technical reports, dissertations, conference proceedings, and new books, in any of 50 languages, are monitored yearly, as are patent...

     / CASSI
    Cassi
    The Cassi are one of five tribes encountered by Julius Caesar during his second expedition to Britain in 55 BC when he crossed the Thames at Kew, and who became his allies after the Trinovantes joined him...

  • Science Citation Index
    Science Citation Index
    The Science Citation Index is a citation index originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information and created by Eugene Garfield in 1960, which is now owned by Thomson Reuters. The larger version covers more than 6,500 notable and significant journals, across 150 disciplines, from ...

  • Current Contents
    Current Contents
    Current Contents is a rapid alerting service database from the Institute for Scientific Information, now part of Thomson Reuters, that is published online and in several different printed subject sections.-History:...

     / Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences
  • GeoRef
    GeoRef
    The GeoRef database is a bibliographic database of scientific literature in the geosciences, including the geology of North America and the world. Coverage ranges from 1785 to the present for North American literature, and 1933 to the present for the rest of the world. It currently contains more...


See also

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