Geophysical Research Letters
Last updated ISSN 0094-8276
Geophysical Research Letters is published by American Geophysical Union in environmental science. It is open access. The article processing charge is $3,190.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Geophysical Research Letters concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Climate variability and models
- Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
- earthquake and tectonic studies
- Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
- Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- High-pressure geophysics and materials
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Key facts
| Publisher | American Geophysical Union |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0094-8276, 1944-8007 |
| Subject area | Environmental Science |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $3,190 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 53,495 |
| Publishing since | 1974 |
| Journal website | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1944-8 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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