Polar Record
Last updated ISSN 0032-2474
Polar Record is published by Cambridge University Press in environmental science. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,550.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Polar Record concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Polar Research and Ecology
- Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Legal case studies and regulations
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Climate change and permafrost
- Marine animal studies overview
Key facts
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0032-2474, 1475-3057 |
| Subject area | Environmental Science |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,550 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 8,381 |
| Publishing since | 1931 |
| Journal website | www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record |
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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