Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences

Last updated ISSN 1345-6296

Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences is published by Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences in earth and planetary sciences. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.

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What it publishes

Recent work in Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:

Geological and Geochemical Analysis
High-pressure geophysics and materials
earthquake and tectonic studies
Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
Crystal Structures and Properties
Mineralogy and Gemology Studies
Clay minerals and soil interactions
Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
Radioactive element chemistry and processing

Key facts

Publisher	Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences
ISSN	1345-6296, 1349-3825
Subject area	Earth and Planetary Sciences
Access	Open access
Article processing charge	Not published
Indexed in	Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus
Articles published	1,028
Publishing since	1980

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