Elements (journal)

For the French magazine, see Éléments.

Elements: An International Magazine of Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Petrology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by 18 scientific societies: Mineralogical Society of America, Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Mineralogical Association of Canada, Clay Minerals Society, Geochemical Society, European Association of Geochemistry, International Association of GeoChemistry, Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, Association of Applied Geochemists, Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft [de], Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia [it], International Association of Geoanalysts, Polskie Towarzystwo Mineralogiczne (Mineralogical Society of Poland), Sociedad Española de Mineralogía (Spanish Mineralogical Society), Swiss Society of Mineralogy and Petrology, Meteoritical Society, Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences and the International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits.^[1] It was established in January 2005.

Elements

Discipline	Mineralogy, geochemistry, petrology
Language	English
Edited by	Richard Harrison, Rebecca Lange, Janne Blichert-Toft
Publication details
History	2005-present
Publisher	Consortium of scientific societies
Frequency	Bimonthly
Impact factor	3.632 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Elements
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	EOOCAG
ISSN	1811-5209 (print) 1811-5217 (web)
LCCN	cn2005390011
OCLC no.	314493749
Links
Journal homepage Online archive

The editors-in-chief are Richard J. Harrison (2020-2022), Rebecca A. Lange (2021-2023), and Janne Blichert-Toft (2022-2024).^[2] 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.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Chemical Abstracts Service,^[3] Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences,^[4] Ei Compendex,^[5] GEOBASE,^[6] Science Citation Index Expanded,^[4] and Scopus.^[7] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 3.632.^[8]