Meteoritics & Planetary Science

Meteoritics & Planetary Science is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Meteoritical Society. It specialises in the fields of meteoritics and planetary science.

Meteoritics & Planetary Science

Discipline	Planetary science
Language	English
Edited by	A.J. Timothy Jull
Publication details
Former name(s)	Meteoritics
History	1953-present
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Meteoritical Society
Frequency	Monthly
Open access	Hybrid
Impact factor	2.890 (2021)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Meteorit. Planet. Sci.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	1086-9379 (print) 1945-5100 (web)
LCCN	96655038
OCLC no.	34046030
Links
Journal homepage Journal page at publisher's website Online access

The journal was established as Meteoritics in 1953, adopting its current name when the scope was broadened in 1996. Since January 1, 2003, the editor-in-chief is A.J. Timothy Jull (Arizona Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory).

History

The journal was established in 1953 as the successor of the Notes and Contributions that were published on behalf of the Meteoritical Society in Popular Astronomy, from 1933 to 1951.^[1] Initially titled Meteoritics, with the 1996 January issue the journal became Meteoritics and Planetary Science.^[2]

Scope

Coverage encompasses planets, natural satellites, interplanetary dust, interstellar medium, lunar samples, meteors, meteorites, asteroids, comets, craters, and tektites and comes from multiple disciplines, such as astronomy, astrophysics, physics, geophysics, chemistry, isotope geochemistry, mineralogy, Earth science, geology, or biology

The journal publishes original research papers, invited reviews, editorials, and book reviews.

Abstracting and indexing

Meteoritics & Planetary Science is indexed and abstracted in:

• Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences
• GEOBASE/Geographical & Geological Abstracts
• Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts
• Science Citation Index
• Scopus

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 2.863, ranking it 37h out of 85 journals in the category "Geochemistry & Geophysics".^[3]