| Meteoritics & Planetary Science | |
|---|---|
| Former name(s) | Contributions of the Society for Research on Meteorites, Contributions of the Meteoritical Society, Meteoritics, |
| Abbreviated title (ISO) | Meteorit. Planet. Sci |
| Discipline | Planetary science |
| Peer-reviewed | yes |
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Professor A.J. Timothy Jull |
| Publication details | |
| Publisher | Meteoritical Society, Wiley-Blackwell (USA) |
| Publication history | 1953 to present |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Open access | partial |
| Impact factor (2010) |
2.624 |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 1086-9379 (print) 1945-5100 (web) |
| LCCN | 96655038 |
| OCLC number | 34046030 |
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Meteoritics & Planetary Science (MAPS) is a monthly, peer reviewed, scientific journal, which was first issued in 1953. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Meteoritical Society. The editor of this journal is A.J. Timothy Jull {NSF - Arizona Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) Laboratory). He has been the editor of Meteoritics & Planetary Science since January 1, 2003. The journal's broad focus is planetary science.[1][2][3]
Publication formats encompass original research papers, invited review papers, editorials, and book reviews. Archived articles from Vol. 37 in 2002 to Vol. 44 in 2009, are available at the University of Arizona Institutional Repository. The University of Arizona board of regents has been in charge of editing this journal since 2002, according to WorldCat.[1][4]
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The journal was first published in 1935 under the title "Contributions of the Society for Research on Meteorites." In 1947, the publication became known as "Contributions of the Meteoritical Society" and continued through 1951. From 1953 to 1995, the publication was known as "Meteoritics: The journal of the Meteoritical Society and the Institute of Meteoritics of the University of New Mexico,"[5] and in 1996, the journal's name was changed to "Meteoritics and Planetary Science" or MAPS. The journal was not published in 1952 and from 1957 to 1964. [4]
Topical coverage encompasses planets, natural satellites, interplanetary dust, interstellar medium, lunar samples, meteors, meteorites, asteroids, comets, craters, and tektites. The contributors, and editors, are scientists by profession, who reperesent multiple disciplines such as astronomy, astrophysics, physics, geophysics, chemistry, isotope geochemistry, mineralogy, earth science, geology, or biology.[1]
Meteoritics & Planetary Science is indexed / abstracted in the following databases: