ELEMENTS MAGAZINE – Latest Updates


	Latest Updates --------------------------------------------------------- Elements’ Impact Factor Climbs to 3.069 We are pleased to report that Elements’ impact factor is continuing the climb it started in 2006. Elements was launched in 2005 and received its first impact factor from the Institute of Scientific Information for 2006 (1.562). The following year, its impact factor climbed to 2.23, and was 3.069 for 2008. The 10 most cited articles from the time of publication to mid-July 2009 are: Charlet L, Polya DA (2006) Arsenic in shallow, reducing groundwaters in southern Asia: An environmental health disaster. Elements 2: 91-96 (41 citations) Harley SL, Kelly NM, Moller A (2007) Zircon behaviour and the thermal histories of mountain chains. Elements 3: 25-30 (26) Geisler T, Schaltegger U, Tomaschek (2007) Re-equilibration of zircon in aqueous fluids and melts. Elements 3: 43-50 (25) Self S, Thordarson T, Widdowson M (2005) Gas fluxes from flood basalt eruptions. Elements 1: 283-287 (23) Ohtani E (2005) Water in the mantle. Elements 1: 25-30 (21) Vaughan DJ (2006) Arsenic. Elements 2: 71-75 (18) Morin G, Calas G (2006) Arsenic in soils, mine tailings, and former industrial sites. Elements 2: 97-101 (18) O’Day PA (2006) Chemistry and mineralogy of arsenic. Elements 2: 77-83 (16) Burns PC, Klingensmith AL (2006) Uranium mineralogy and neptunium mobility. Elements 2: 351-356 (1) Openhayn C (2006) Arsenic in drinking water: Impact on human health. Elements 2: 103-107 (15) The issues that have garnered the most citations are: Arsenic (2006, v2n2, 115 citations); Zircon (2007, v3n1, 9); Large Igneous Provinces (2005, v1n5, 79); The Nuclear Fuel Cycle (2006, v2n6, 60), and Diamonds (2005, v1n2, 50). --------------------------------------------------------- July 16, 2009 – Press Release Rod Ewing, Chair of Elements Executive Committee, and the editors are pleased to announce that James I. Drever has accepted the position of principal editor 2010-2011. His term of office will start in January 2010, when he will replace Susan Stipp. James I. (Tim) Drever is a native of Scotland. He received an undergraduate degree in chemistry from Cambridge University and a PhD in geochemistry from Princeton. He spent three years at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where he worked on early diagenesis of clay minerals and on the Apollo 11 lunar samples. He then moved to the University of Wyoming, where he has been ever since with the exception of sabbaticals in Switzerland, France, and Germany. He is currently a Distinguished Emeritus Professor. His main research interest is the chemistry of groundwater and surface waters, with a particular emphasis on weathering processes and the impacts of mining operations. A focus of his research has been bridging the gap between laboratory-scale experiments and what actually happens in the field. He is author of the textbook The Geochemistry of Natural Waters. He served as an Editor-in-Chief of Chemical Geology from 1995 to 2001 and has served as associate editor of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta and Geochemical Journal (Japan). He is a fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America and the Geological Society of America. He is Past President of the Geochemical Society (2004–2005. It is under his leadership that the Geochemical Society decided to become one of Elements’ participating societies. Upon accepting the invitation made to him to join the Elements team, Tim mentioned that “Elements has been very successful in producing a magazine that is fun to read and addresses topics that are of wide interest within our community. It is having a real impact. I look forward to continuing this tradition and, in particular, to addressing topics of societal importance where Elements can play a role in educating the public and decision makers.” ---------------------------------------------------------

Latest Updates

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Elements’ Impact Factor Climbs to 3.069

We are pleased to report that Elements’ impact factor is continuing the climb it started in 2006. Elements was launched in 2005 and received its first impact factor from the Institute of Scientific Information for 2006 (1.562). The following year, its impact factor climbed to 2.23, and was 3.069 for 2008.

The 10 most cited articles from the time of publication to mid-July 2009 are:

Charlet L, Polya DA (2006) Arsenic in shallow, reducing groundwaters in southern Asia: An environmental health disaster. Elements 2: 91-96 (41 citations)

Harley SL, Kelly NM, Moller A (2007) Zircon behaviour and the thermal histories of mountain chains. Elements 3: 25-30 (26)

Geisler T, Schaltegger U, Tomaschek (2007) Re-equilibration of zircon in aqueous fluids and melts. Elements 3: 43-50 (25)

Self S, Thordarson T, Widdowson M (2005) Gas fluxes from flood basalt eruptions. Elements 1: 283-287 (23)

Ohtani E (2005) Water in the mantle. Elements 1: 25-30 (21)

Vaughan DJ (2006) Arsenic. Elements 2: 71-75 (18)

Morin G, Calas G (2006) Arsenic in soils, mine tailings, and former industrial sites. Elements 2: 97-101 (18)

O’Day PA (2006) Chemistry and mineralogy of arsenic. Elements 2: 77-83 (16)

Burns PC, Klingensmith AL (2006) Uranium mineralogy and neptunium mobility. Elements 2: 351-356 (1)

Openhayn C (2006) Arsenic in drinking water: Impact on human health. Elements 2: 103-107 (15)

The issues that have garnered the most citations are: Arsenic (2006, v2n2, 115 citations); Zircon (2007, v3n1, 9); Large Igneous Provinces (2005, v1n5, 79); The Nuclear Fuel Cycle (2006, v2n6, 60), and Diamonds (2005, v1n2, 50).

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July 16, 2009 – Press Release

Rod Ewing, Chair of Elements Executive Committee, and the editors are pleased to announce that James I. Drever has accepted the position of principal editor 2010-2011. His term of office will start in January 2010, when he will replace Susan Stipp.

James I. (Tim) Drever is a native of Scotland. He received an undergraduate degree in chemistry from Cambridge University and a PhD in geochemistry from Princeton. He spent three years at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where he worked on early diagenesis of clay minerals and on the Apollo 11 lunar samples. He then moved to the University of Wyoming, where he has been ever since with the exception of sabbaticals in Switzerland, France, and Germany. He is currently a Distinguished Emeritus Professor. His main research interest is the chemistry of groundwater and surface waters, with a particular emphasis on weathering processes and the impacts of mining operations. A focus of his research has been bridging the gap between laboratory-scale experiments and what actually happens in the field. He is author of the textbook The Geochemistry of Natural Waters. He served as an Editor-in-Chief of Chemical Geology from 1995 to 2001 and has served as associate editor of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta and Geochemical Journal (Japan). He is a fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America and the Geological Society of America. He is Past President of the Geochemical Society (2004–2005. It is under his leadership that the Geochemical Society decided to become one of Elements’ participating societies.

Upon accepting the invitation made to him to join the Elements team, Tim mentioned that “Elements has been very successful in producing a magazine that is fun to read and addresses topics that are of wide interest within our community. It is having a real impact. I look forward to continuing this tradition and, in particular, to addressing topics of societal importance where Elements can play a role in educating the public and decision makers.”

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