Elements (journal)
Elements: An International Magazine of Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Petrology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by 17 scientific societies: Mineralogical Society of America, Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Mineralogical Association of Canada, Geochemical Society, Clay Minerals Society, European Association of Geochemistry, International Association of GeoChemistry, Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, Association of Applied Geochemists,,, International Association of Geoanalysts, Polskie Towarzystwo Mineralogiczne, Sociedad Española de Mineralogía, Swiss Society of Mineralogy and Petrology, Meteoritical Society, and the Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences. It was established in January 2005. The editors-in-chief are Patricia M. Dove, Gordon E. Brown, Jr, and Bernard J. Wood. The journal covers all aspects of mineralogy, geochemistry, and petrology. Each issue is devoted to a particular topic and contains invited review articles, as well as society news and book reviews. The journal is a hybrid open-access journal, publishing both subscription and open access articles.Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Chemical Abstracts Service/CASSI, Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences, GEOBASE, Science Citation Index, and Scopus. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2013 impact factor of 4.500.
