JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

'''Journal of Geophysical Research''' is a publication of the American Geophysical Union. JGR was formerly titled ''Terrestrial Magnetism'' from its founding by the AGU's president Louis A. Bauer in 1896, and ''Terrestrial Magnetism and Atmospheric Electricity'' from 1899-1948.
In 1980 JGR was split into three specialized component journals, ''JGR-Space Physics'' (Part A), ''JGR-Solid Earth'' (Part B), and ''JGR-Oceans'' (Part C). Subsequently, additional titles have been added, including ''JGR-Atmospheres'' (Part D) in 1984, ''JGR-Planets'' (Part E) in 1991, ''JGR-Earth Surface'' (Part F) in 2003, and ''JGR-Biogeosciences'' (Part G) in 2005.
The AGU provides subscribers access to electronic versions of nearly all papers published in the ''Journal of Geophysical Research'' from 1994 to the present. In addition, since 1994, the AGU has provided online e-supplements to JGR articles, allowing data sets to be disseminated and archived along with electronic versions of the published articles.

Contents

Component journals

Citation controversy

See also

External links

Component journals

★ ''JGR-Atmospheres'' includes physics and chemistry of the atmosphere, as well as the atmospheric-biospheric, lithospheric, or hydrospheric interface.

★ ''JGR-Biogeosciences'' focuses on the interface between biology and the geosciences and attempts to understand the functions of the Earth system across multiple spatial and temporal scales.

★ ''JGR-Earth Surface'' focuses on the physical, chemical and biological processes that affect the form and function of the surface of the solid Earth over all temporal and spatial scales, including fluvial, eolian, and coastal sediment transport; hillslope mass movements; glacial and periglacial activity; weathering and pedogenesis; surface manifestations of volcanism and tectonism.

★ ''JGR-Oceans'' covers physical, biological, and chemical oceanography.

★ ''JGR-Planets'' covers the geology, geophysics, geochemistry, atmospheres, biology, and dynamics of the planets, satellites, asteroids, rings, comets, and meteorites; planetary origins; and planetary detection. Studies of the Earth are included when they concern exogenic effects or the comparison of the Earth to other planets.

★ ''JGR-Solid Earth'' focuses on the physics and chemistry of the solid Earth and the liquid core of the Earth, geomagnetism, paleomagnetism, marine geology/geophysics, chemistry and physics of minerals, rocks, volcanology, seismology, geodesy, gravity, and tectonophysics.

★ ''JGR-Space Physics'' covers aeronomy and magnetospheric physics, planetary atmospheres and magnetospheres, interplanetary and external solar physics, cosmic rays, and heliospheric physics.

Citation controversy

Beginning January 1, 2002, the American Geophysical Union began distributing all of its publications online with papers provided in both HTML and PDF formats. Officially, these electronic versions, rather than the print versions, of the journals are the publications of record. Sequential page numbers were eliminated and a digital object identifier (DOI) was assigned to each paper for citation purposes. After some controversy about citations using a DOI, the AGU introduced a new citation number effective August 13 2002 to supplement the DOIs. The citation format was revised again in 2004.

See also

★ List of scientific journals

★ List of scientific journals in earth and atmospheric sciences

External links

★ American Geophysical Union journals homepage

★ AGU's Transition to Electronic Publishing

★ About Citing AGU Articles